Progress in Motor Control

Mark L. Latash, PhD, is an associate professor of kinesiology at Penn State University. Since the 1970s, he has worked extensively in the areas of normal and disordered motor control. His work has included animal studies, human experiments, modeling, and clinical studies. Latash chaired the organizing committee of the international conference, "Bernstein's Traditions in Motor Control," which took place at Penn State in August of 1996. Chapters of Progress in Motor Control, Volume 1 were written by invited speakers at the conference. The author of Control of Human Movement (Human Kinetics, 1993), Latash also translated Bernstein's classic, On Dexterity and its Development (Erlbaum), in 1996. Latash earned a master's degree in physics of living systems from the Moscow Physico-Technical Institute in 1976 and a PhD in physiology from Rush University in 1989. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the American Society of Biomechanics. Latash lives in State College, Pennsylvania. His leisure activities include spending time with friends, playing guitar and singing, and reading.

Chapter 1. The Scientific Legacy of Nikolai BernsteinVictor S. Gurfinkel and Paul J. CordoChapter 2. Reflections on a Bernsteinian Approach to Systems Neuroscience: The Controlled Locomotion of High-Decerebrate CatsDouglas Stuart and Jennifer C. McDonaghChapter 3. Automation of Movements: Challenges to the Notions of the Orienting Reaction and MemoryLev P. LatashChapter 4. The Model of the Future in Motor ControlJosef M. FeigenbergChapter 5. Bernstein's Principle of Equal Simplicity and Related ConceptsMario WiesendangerChapter 6. Coordinated Control of Posture and Movement: Respective Role of Motor Memory and External ConstraintsJean Massion, Alexey Alexandrov, and Sylvie VernazzChapter 7. Mechanical, Neural, and Perceptual Effects of Tendon VibrationPaul J. Cordo, David Burke, Simon C. Gandevia, and John-Paul HalesChapter 8. On the Number of Degrees of Freedom in Biological LimbsStan Gielen, Bauke van Bolhuis, Erik VrijenhoekChapter 9. Abnormal Muscle Synergies in Hemiparetic Stroke: Origins and Implications for Movement ControlW. Zev Rymer; Jules Dewald, P.T.; Joseph Given; and Randall BeerChapter 10. From Bernstein's Physiology of Activity to Coordination DynamicsJ.A. Scott KelsoChapter 11. Optical Flow Fields and Bernstein's "Modeling of the Future"Nam-Gyoon Kim and M.T. TurveyChapter 12. Bernstein's Legacy for Motor Development: How Infants Learn to ReachEsther ThelenChapter 13. Spatial Frames of Reference for Motor ControlAnatol G. FeldmanChapter 14. Control of Multijoint Reaching Movement: The Elastic Membrane MetaphorMark L. LatashChapter 15. Generalized Motor Programs and Units of Action in Bimanual CoordinationRichard A. Schmidt, Herbert Heuer, Dina Ghodsian, Douglas E. YoungChapter 16. How Are Explosive Movements Controlled?A.J. "Knoek" van Soest and Gerrit Jan van Ingen Schenau