Research Catalog

Title

Motor behavior and human skill : a multidisciplinary approach / Jan P. Piek, editor.

Publication

Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Piek, Jan P.

Description

xi, 434 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Motor Behavior and Human Skill details the most recent research in motor control and human skill. The book provides a forum for the analysis of the many diverse theoretical approaches used in the understanding of motor control, including the cognitive, dynamical systems, computational, and neurological approaches.

Subjects

• Movement disorders
• Motor learning
• Motor ability
• Sensorimotor integration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. Sequential Representation and the Neural Basis of Motor Skills / Steven W. Keele, Matthew Davidson and Amy Hayes -- Ch. 2. The Locus of Distance-Location Interference in Movement Reproduction: Do We Know Any More 25 Years On? / Kuniyasu Imanaka, Bruce Abernethy and Jin-Jong Quek -- Ch. 3. Optimizing the Use of Vision During Motor Skill Acquisition / Digby Ellion and James Lyons -- Ch. 4. Adaptation to a Changed Sensory-Motor Relation: Immediate and Delayed Parametric Modifications / Nicholas J. O'Dwyer and Peter D. Neilson -- Ch. 5. Evidence for Rapid Switching of Sensory-Motor Models / Peter D. Neilson, Megan D. Neilson and Nicholas J. O'Dwyer -- Ch. 6. A Neural Oscillator Model Learning Given Trajectories, or How an "Allo-Imitation Algorithm" Can Be Implemented Into a Motor Controller / Karl Th. Kalveram -- Ch. 7. The Nature of Movement Variability / Karl M. Newell and Andrew B. Slifkin --
• Ch. 8. Information-Based Dynamics and Manual Asymmetries in Perception and Action / Winston D. Byblow and Romeo Chua -- Ch. 9. Intentional Switching Between Patterns of Coordination in Bimanual Circle Drawing / Irina J. Wuyts, Winston D. Byblow and Jeffery J. Summers [et al.] -- Ch. 10. Moving Beyond Phenomenology: Neuromuscular-Skeletal Constraints Upon Coordination Dynamics / Richard G. Carson and Stephan Riek -- Ch. 11. The Influence of Preterm Birth on Early Motor Development / Jan P. Piek -- Ch. 12. The Development of Kinesthesis and Its Relationship to Motor Ability in Preschool Children / David J. Livesey and Rebecca Coleman -- Ch. 13. Process-Oriented Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment of Perceptual-Motor Dysfunction / Judith I. Laszlo -- Ch. 14. The Influence of Context in the Development of Reaching and Grasping: Implications for Assessment of Disability / Judith L. Charlton, Elfriede Ihsen and Jennie Oxley --
• Ch. 15. Motor Sequencing Problems in Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, and Tourette's Syndrome 1: A Review of Basal Ganglia Involvement / John L. Bradshaw, Nellie Georgiou and James G. Phillips [et al.] -- Ch. 16. Motor Sequencing Problems in Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, and Tourette's Syndrome 2: Recent Findings Involving the Provision of Advance Information / Nellie Georgiou, John L. Bradshaw and Dianne Sheppard [et al.] -- Ch. 17. Evidence for Motor Skill Learning in Parkinson's Disease / Meg E. Morris, Janice M. Collier and Thomas A. Matyas [et al.] -- Ch. 18. Referential Behavior Theory: A Framework for Multiple Perspectives on Motor Control / Jeffrey Pressing -- Ch. 19. Has Ecological Psychology Delivered What It Promised? / Jeffery J. Summers -- Ch. 20. Replies to J.J. Summers: Has Ecological Psychology Delivered What It Promised?
• Commentary 1 - Programming or Planning Conceptions of Motor Control Speak to Different Phenomena Than Dynamical System Conceptions / Steven W. Keele. Commentary 2 - Ecological Psychology and Movement Dynamics: A Plea for Biological Realism / Richard G. Carson. Commentary 3 - The Scope of Ecological Designs / Jeffrey Pressing. Commentary 4 - Action and Ecological Psychology: A Winter's View From Summers / Karl M. Newell.

ISBN

0880116757

LCCN

97040755

OCLC

ocm37705301

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries