Progress in Motor Control (eBook)

Preface 5
Contents 7
Contributors 11
The Nature of Motor Control 19
Nature of Motor Control: Not Strictly ‘‘Motor’’, Not Quite ‘‘ Control’’ 21
Beyond Control: The Dynamics of Brain- Body- Environment Interaction in Motor Systems 25
Towards Testable Neuromechanical Control Architectures for Running 43
Control from an Allometric Perspective 75
Synergies: Atoms of Brain and Behavior 101
Nature of Motor Control: Perspectives and Issues 111
What is Encoded in the Brain? 143
Past, Present, and Emerging Principles in the Neural Encoding of Movement 145
From Intention to Action: Motor Cortex and the Control of Reaching Movements 157
Control of Muscle Synergies by Cortical Ensembles 197
Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Target Interception 219
Learning from Learning: What Can Visuomotor Adaptations Tell us About the Neuronal Representation of Movement? 239
The Problem of Parametric Neural Coding in the Motor System 261
Perception and Action 279
Introduction to Section on Perception and Action 281
Mutuality in the Perception of Affordances and the Control of Movement 291
Object Avoidance During Locomotion 311
The Roles of Vision and Proprioception in the Planning of Reaching Movements 335
Using Predictive Motor Control Processes in a Cognitive Task: Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Perspectives 355
The Human Mirror Neuron System and Embodied Representations 373
Disorders of the Perceptual-Motor System 395
Motor Learning 411
Some Contemporary Issues in Motor Learning 413
Motor Learning and Consolidation: The Case of Visuomotor Rotation 423
Cortical Processing during Dynamic Motor Adaptation 441
Motor Learning: Changes in the Structure of Variability in a Redundant Task 457
Time Scales, Difficulty/Skill Duality, and the Dynamics of Motor Learning 475
Bridging of Models for Complex Movements in 3D 496
Bridging of Models for Complex Movements in 3D 497
The Posture-Based Motion Planning Framework: New Findings Related to Object Manipulation, Moving Around Obstacles, Moving in Three Spatial Dimensions, and Haptic Tracking 503
Grasping Occam’s Razor 517
Review of Models for the Generation of Multi-Joint Movements in 3- D 541
The Hand as a Complex System 570
Why the Hand? 571
Selective Activation of Human Finger Muscles after Stroke or Amputation 577
Neural Control of Hand Muscles During Prehension 595
Multi-Finger Prehension: Control of a Redundant Mechanical System 615
A Mathematical Approach to the Mechanical Capabilities of Limbs and Fingers 637
Forty Years of Equilibrium- Point Hypothesis 653
Origin and Advances of the Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis 655
The Biomechanics of Force Production 663
The Implications of Force Feedback for the l Model 681
Control and Calibration of Multi-Segment Reaching Movements 699
The Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis – Past, Present and Future 717
Subject Index 745