Sensory Guidance of Movement

Visual determinants of grasping movements; vision for perception and vision for action in the primate brain; sensory input and control of grip; motor areas on the medial wall of the hemisphere; grasping objects and grasping action meanings - the dual role of monkey rostroventral premotor cortex (area 5); posterior parietal cortex and the sensory guidance of movement; how does visual information instruct the motor system; cortical mechanisms in directed reaching; cortical control of whole-arm motor tasks; the importance of the cortico-motoneural system for cortical control of grasp; role of the cerebellum in co-ordinating movements; construction of a reach-to-grasp; cerebellum and the visual guidance of movement; the cerebellum and predictive control; internal models for motor control; basic science and disorders of movement.