Motor Control and Learning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Control of Movement and Posture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Nature of Voluntary Control of Motor Actions

      • Anatol G. Feldman

      Pages 3-8

   3. Plans for Grasping Objects

      • David A. Rosenbaum, Rajal G. Cohen, Ruud G. J. Meulenbroek, Jonathan Vaughan

      Pages 9-25

   4. Adherence and Postural Control: A Biomechanical Analysis of Transient Push Efforts

      • Simon Bouisset, Serge Le Bozec, Christian Ribreau

      Pages 27-43

3. Control of Rhythmic Action

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45

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   2. Trajectory Formation in Timed Repetitive Movements

      • Ramesh Balasubramaniam

      Pages 47-54

   3. Stability and Variability in Skilled Rhythmic Action—A Dynamical Analysis of Rhythmic Ball Bouncing

      • Dagmar Sternad

      Pages 55-62

   4. The Distinctions Between State, Parameter and Graph Dynamics in Sensorimotor Control and Coordination

      • Elliot Saltzman, Hosung Nam, Louis Goldstein, Dani Byrd

      Pages 63-73

4. Motor Learning and Neural Plasticity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Stabilization of Old and New Postural Patterns in Standing Humans

      • Benoît G. Bardy, Elise Faugloire, Paul Fourcade, Thomas A. Stoffregen

      Pages 77-87

   3. The Role of the Motor Cortex in Motor Learning

      • Mark Hallett

      Pages 89-95

   4. Feedback Remapping and the Cortical Control of Movement

      • Michael S. A. Graziano

      Pages 97-104

   5. How Cerebral and Cerebellar Plasticities May Cooperate During Arm Reaching Movement Learning: A Neural Network Model

      • Alexander A. Frolov, Michel Dufossé

      Pages 105-114

   6. Motor Performance and Regional Brain Metabolism of Four Spontaneous Murine Mutations with Degeneration of the Cerebellar Cortex

      • Robert Lalonde, Catherine Strazielle

      Pages 115-124

5. Development and Aging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. Development and Motor Control: From the First Step on

      • Guy Cheron, Anita Cebolla, Françoise Leurs, Ana Bengoetxea, Bernard Dan

      Pages 127-139

   3. Changes in Finger Coordination and Hand Function with Advanced Age

      • Mark L. Latash, Jae Kun Shim, Minoru Shinohara, Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky

      Pages 141-159

6. Back Matter

   Pages 161-169

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The purpose of the current volume is two-fold. First, The second chapter is co-authored by Rosenbaum, it presents a series of review papers re?ecting the re- Cohen, Meulenbroek, and Vaughan. The authors - cent progress in the area of neural control of posture dress in this chapter another central issue of motor and movement (Parts I and II). Second, it focuses on control,thatofcreatingmotorplans.Inlinewitht- issues of changes in motor patterns and neurological orizing by David Rosenbaum and his colleagues, this structures involved in their production with learning, chapter develops the idea of end-state comfort as an development, and aging (Parts III and IV). organizing criterion for the formation motor plans. The chapters in this volume were written by speak- The chapter also highlights the role of mental rep- ers at the Fourth meeting “Progress in Motor Con- sentation in motor control. trol” that took place in Caen (France) in 2003. As Chapter 3 focuses on issues of postural control.

• attention
• brain
• cortex
• metabolism
• mutation
• neural networks
• rehabilitation
• rehabilitation psychology
• biochemical engineering

• The Pennsylvania State University, USA

  Mark L. Latash

• Université De Caen Basse-Normandie, France

  Francis Lestienne

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