Danion F., Latash M. Motor Control: Theories, Experiments, and Applications

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. - 536 p.Motor control has established itself as an area of scientific research characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach. Scientists working in the area of control of voluntary movements come from different backgrounds including but not limited to physiology, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, physical therapy, computer science, robotics, and engineering. One of the factors slowing progress in the area has been the lack of communication among researchers representing all these disciplines. A major objective of the current book is to overcome this deficiency and to promote cooperation and mutual understanding among researchers addressing different aspects of the complex phenomenon of motor coordination. The book offers a collection of chapters written by the most prominent researchers in the field. Despite the variety of approaches and methods, all the chapters are united by a common goal: To understand how the central nervous system controls and coordinates natural voluntary movements. This book will be appreciated as a major reference by researchers working in all the subfields that form motor control. It can also be used as a supplementary reading book for graduate courses in such fields as kinesiology, physiology, biomechanics, psychology, robotics, and movement disorders.In one concise volume, Motor Control presents the diversity of the research performed to understand human movement. Deftly organized into 6 primary sections, the editors, Dr Fr?d?ric Danion and Dr Mark Latash, have invited the who's who of specialists to write on: MotorControl: Control of a Complex; Cortical Mechanisms of Motor Control; Lessons from Biomechanics; Lessons from Motor Learning and Using Tools; Lessons from Studies of Aging and MotorDisorders; and Lessons from RoboticsMotor Control will quickly become the go-to reference for researchers in this growing field. Researchers from mechanics and engineering to psychology and neurophysiology, as well as clinicians working in motor disorders and rehabilitation, will be equally interested in the pages contained herein.Motor Control: Control of a Complex SystemAnticipatory Control of Voluntary Action: Merging the Ideas of Equilibrium-point Control and Synergic Control
Object Representations Used in Action and Perception
A Canonical-Dissipative Approach to Control and Coordination in the Complex System Agent-Task-Environment
Observer-independent Dynamical Measures of Team Coordination and Performance
Decomposing Muscle Activity in Motor Tasks: Methods and InterpretationCortical Mechanisms of Motor ControlDynamics of Motor Cortical Networks: The Complementarity of Spike Synchrony and Firing Rate
Proximal-to-Distal Sequencing Behavior and Motor CortexLessons from BiomechanicsThe Biomechanics of Movement Control
Control of Locomotion: Lessons from Whole-body Biomechanical Analysis
Control of Equilibrium in Humans: Sway over SwayLessons from Motor Learning and Using ToolsLearning and Switching of Internal Models for Dexterous Tool Use
Variability, Noise, and Sensitivity to Error in Learning a Motor Task
Forecasting the Long-range Consequences of Manual and Tool Use Actions: Neurophysiological, Behavioral, and Computational Considerations
Training Skills with Virtual EnvironmentsLessons from Studies of Aging and Motor DisordersBrain and Behavior Deficits in De Novo Parkinson Disease
Emerging Principles in the Learning and Generalization of New Walking Patterns
Aging and Movement Control: The Neural Basis of Age-related Compensatory RecruitmentLessons from RoboticsDecoding the Mechanisms of Gait Generation and Gait Transition in the Salamander Using Robots and Mathematical Models
Aerial Navigation and Optic Flow Sensing: A Biorobotic Approach
Models and Architectures for Motor Control: Simple or Complex?