Progress in Motor Control: Volume 1, Bernstein's Traditions in Movement Studies

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This book sets a new standard as the leading state-of-the-art account on motor control by using a Bernsteinian integration of information from different fields of study.

It features sixteen chapters by internationally known researchers, including four authors from the ex-USSR who worked directly with Nikolai Bernstein, the first scientist working in the area now defined as motor control. Each chapter addresses urgent problems of motor control across a spectrum of topics.

Written in a reader-friendly style, this volume summarizes the latest motor control issues, research, and theories, and identifies problems in pressing need of investigation.
This unique forum features 106 pieces of art and 7 tables to reflect the different fields of study related to the organization of voluntary movements and improve interdisciplinary communication.

Prominent motor control scientists integrate information across different fields of study and provide a contemporary reflection of Bernstein's legacy in the nineties in this first volume of Progress in Motor Control.

About the Editor

Mark L. Latash, PhD, is an associate professor of kinesiology at Penn State University. Since the 1970s, he has worked extensively in the areas of normal and disordered motor control. His work has included animal studies, human experiments, modeling, and clinical studies.

Latash chaired the organizing committee of the international conference, "Bernstein's Traditions in Motor Control," which took place at Penn State in August of 1996. Chapters of Progress in Motor Control, Volume 1 were written by invited speakers at the conference.

The author of Control of Human Movement (Human Kinetics, 1993), Latash also translated Bernstein's classic, On Dexterity and its Development (Erlbaum), in 1996.

Latash earned a master's degree in physics of living systems from the Moscow Physico-Technical Institute in 1976 and a PhD in physiology from Rush University in 1989. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the American Society of Biomechanics.

Latash lives in State College, Pennsylvania. His leisure activities include spending time with friends, playing guitar and singing, and reading.

Preface
Credits

Chapter 1. The Scientific Legacy of Nikolai Bernstein
Victor S. Gurfinkel and Paul J. Cordo

Chapter 2. Reflections on a Bernsteinian Approach to Systems Neuroscience: The Controlled Locomotion of High-Decerebrate Cats
Douglas Stuart and Jennifer C. McDonagh

Chapter 3. Automation of Movements: Challenges to the Notions of the Orienting Reaction and Memory
Lev P. Latash

Chapter 4. The Model of the Future in Motor Control
Josef M. Feigenberg

Chapter 5. Bernstein's Principle of Equal Simplicity and Related Concepts
Mario Wiesendanger

Chapter 6. Coordinated Control of Posture and Movement: Respective Role of Motor Memory and External Constraints
Jean Massion, Alexey Alexandrov, and Sylvie Vernazza

Chapter 7. Mechanical, Neural, and Perceptual Effects of Tendon Vibration
Paul J. Cordo, David Burke, Simon C. Gandevia, and John-Paul Hales

Chapter 8. On the Number of Degrees of Freedom in Biological Limbs
Stan Gielen, Bauke van Bolhuis, Erik Vrijenhoek

Chapter 9. Abnormal Muscle Synergies in Hemiparetic Stroke: Origins and Implications for Movement Control
W. Zev Rymer; Jules Dewald, P.T.; Joseph Given; and Randall Beer

Chapter 10. From Bernstein's Physiology of Activity to Coordination Dynamics
J.A. Scott Kelso

Chapter 11. Optical Flow Fields and Bernstein's "Modeling of the Future"
Nam-Gyoon Kim and M.T. Turvey

Chapter 12. Bernstein's Legacy for Motor Development: How Infants Learn to Reach
Esther Thelen

Chapter 13. Spatial Frames of Reference for Motor Control
Anatol G. Feldman

Chapter 14. Control of Multijoint Reaching Movement: The Elastic Membrane Metaphor
Mark L. Latash

Chapter 15. Generalized Motor Programs and Units of Action in Bimanual Coordination
Richard A. Schmidt, Herbert Heuer, Dina Ghodsian, Douglas E. Young

Chapter 16. How Are Explosive Movements Controlled?
A.J. "Knoek" van Soest and Gerrit Jan van Ingen Schenau

Index
Contributors

Audiences

Audiences: Textbook for graduate courses on special topics related to the understanding and application of the basic principles of control of natural voluntary movements. Reference for professionals in human movement studies, biomechanics, motor behavior (kinesiology), motor disorders and rehabilitation, neurophysiology of movements, motor development, psychophysiology of movements, and models and theories in motor control.

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