Insights into the Reach to Grasp Movement (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Introduction Insights into the Reach to Grasp Movement 4
Copyright Page 5
Dedication 6
Preface 8
Acknowledgements 14
Permissions 16
Table of Contents 18
List of Contributors 22
Overture 26
Chapter 1. Object oriented action 28
Section One: Evolution and Development 42
Chapter 2. Evolution 44
Chapter 3. Development of the reach to grasp movement 62
Section Two: Central Mechanisms 82
Chapter 4. Neuronal substrate for volitional movement 84
Chapter 5. Grasping cerebellar function 110
Chapter 6. Brain areas responsible for the generation and control of reaching and grasping. Anatomy with positron emission tomography 134
Section Three: Behavioural Studies 152
Chapter 7. Object property and task effects on prehension 154
Chapter 8. Perturbation studies of coordinated prehension 176
Chapter 9. Vision and the reach to grasp movement 196
Section Four: Clinical and Rehabilitation Studies 222
Chapter 10. The neural substrates of visually guided prehension: the effects of focal brain damage 224
Chapter 11. The reach to grasp movement of Parkinson's disease subjects 240
Chapter 12. Task-specific training of reaching and manipulation 264
Section Five: Biomechanics and Robotics 292
Chapter 13. Biomechanical analysis of reach and grasp 294
Chapter 14. Reinforcement learning for robotic reaching and grasping 306
Section Six: Neural Modeling 334
Chapter 15. Trends in neural modeling for reach to grasp 336
Chapter 16. Optimal control of reaching movements 370
Author Index 392
Subject Index 408