Human motor control
Rosenbaum, David A.

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  • Human motor control
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : Monograph/item
    Title/Author: Human motor control/ David A. Rosenbaum.
    Author: Rosenbaum, David A.
    Published: Amsterdam ;Elsevier Inc., : c2010.,
    Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 505 p.) :ill.
    [NT 15003449]: PART 1: PRELIMINARIES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CORE PROBLEMS -- 3. PHYSIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS -- 4. PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS -- PART 2: THE ACTIVITY SYSTEMS -- 5. WALKING -- 6. LOOKING -- 7. REACHING -- 8. DRAWING AND WRITING -- 9. KEYBOARDING -- 10. SPEAKING AND SINGING -- 11. SMILING -- PART 3: PRINCIPLES AND PROSPECTS -- 12. MOVING ON.
    [NT 15003449]: Introduction. Understanding human motor control ; Levels of analysis ; Fields contributing to research on human motor control ; Organization of the book -- Core problems. The degrees of freedom problem ; The sequencing and timing problem ; The perceptual-motor integration problem ; The learning problem -- Physical foundations. Muscle ; Proprioception ; Spinal cord ; Cerebellum ; Basal ganglia ; Motor cortex ; Premotor cortex ; Supplementary motor area ; Parietal cortex ; Disconnections ; Concluding remarks -- Psychological foundations. Theories of sequencing and timing ; Skill acquisition ; Codes and stores ; States of mind -- Walking. Descriptions of walking ; Neural control of locomotion ; walking machines ; The development of walking ; Models of motor development ; Navigating ; Memory -- Looking. Blinking ; Accommodation ; Pupil constriction and dilation ; General features of eye movements ; Saccades ; Smooth pursuit movements ; Vergence movements ; Eye movements and space constancy ; Development and plasticity of oculo-motor control -- Reaching and grasping. The development of reaching and grasping ; Visual guidance ; Aiming ; Equilibrium point hypothesis ; Discrete versus continuous movements ; Intersegmental coordination -- Drawing and writing. Drawing ; Control of writing ; The dynamic dominance hypothesis -- Keyboarding. Reaction time. Simultaneous and sequential finger presses ; Typing ; Piano playing -- Speaking and signing. The issues ; Overview of the chapter ; The vocal tract and articulatory dynamics ; Variability ; High-level control of speech ; Brain mechanisms underlying speech ; Bird song ; Motor resonance -- Smiling. Physical control of the face ; Neural control of the face ; Origins of emotional expression ; Social interaction -- Moving on. Integration ; Individual differences ; Theories of human motor control ; Innovations ; Concluding remarks.
    Subject: Movement, Psychology of. -
    Online resource: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123742261
    ISBN: 9780123742261 (electronic bk.)
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