Progress in Motor Control - A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Preface

Contents

Contributors

The Nature of Motor Control

Nature of Motor Control: Not Strictly ‘‘Motor’’, Not Quite ‘‘ Control’’

Beyond Control: The Dynamics of Brain- Body- Environment Interaction in Motor Systems

Towards Testable Neuromechanical Control Architectures for Running

Control from an Allometric Perspective

Synergies: Atoms of Brain and Behavior

Nature of Motor Control: Perspectives and Issues

What is Encoded in the Brain?

Past, Present, and Emerging Principles in the Neural Encoding of Movement

From Intention to Action: Motor Cortex and the Control of Reaching Movements

Control of Muscle Synergies by Cortical Ensembles

Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Target Interception

Learning from Learning: What Can Visuomotor Adaptations Tell us About the Neuronal Representation of Movement?

The Problem of Parametric Neural Coding in the Motor System

Perception and Action

Introduction to Section on Perception and Action

Mutuality in the Perception of Affordances and the Control of Movement

Object Avoidance During Locomotion

The Roles of Vision and Proprioception in the Planning of Reaching Movements

Using Predictive Motor Control Processes in a Cognitive Task: Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Perspectives

The Human Mirror Neuron System and Embodied Representations

Disorders of the Perceptual-Motor System

Motor Learning

Some Contemporary Issues in Motor Learning

Motor Learning and Consolidation: The Case of Visuomotor Rotation

Cortical Processing during Dynamic Motor Adaptation

Motor Learning: Changes in the Structure of Variability in a Redundant Task

Time Scales, Difficulty/Skill Duality, and the Dynamics of Motor Learning

Bridging of Models for Complex Movements in 3D

Bridging of Models for Complex Movements in 3D

The Posture-Based Motion Planning Framework: New Findings Related to Object Manipulation, Moving Around Obstacles, Moving in Three Spatial Dimensions, and Haptic Tracking

Grasping Occam’s Razor

Review of Models for the Generation of Multi-Joint Movements in 3- D

The Hand as a Complex System

Why the Hand?

Selective Activation of Human Finger Muscles after Stroke or Amputation

Neural Control of Hand Muscles During Prehension

Multi-Finger Prehension: Control of a Redundant Mechanical System

A Mathematical Approach to the Mechanical Capabilities of Limbs and Fingers

Forty Years of Equilibrium- Point Hypothesis

Origin and Advances of the Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis

The Biomechanics of Force Production

The Implications of Force Feedback for the l Model

Control and Calibration of Multi-Segment Reaching Movements

The Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis – Past, Present and Future

Subject Index