Table of Contents

Contributors
Section 1: Motor Control: Control of a Complex System
Chapter 1: Anticipatory Control of Voluntary Action: Merging the Ideas of Equilibrium-point Control and Synergic Control
Mark L. Latash
Chapter 2: Object Representations Used in Action and Perception
J. Randall Flanagan and Roland S. Johansson
Chapter 3: A Canonical-dissipative Approach to Control and Coordination in the Complex System Agent-Task-Environment
Till D. Frank, Dobromir G. Dotov, and Michael T. Turvey
Chapter 4: Observer-independent Dynamical Measures of Team Coordination and Performance
Silke M. Dodel, Ajay S. Pillai, Philip W. Fink, Eric R. Muth, Roy Stripling, Dylan D. Schmorrow, Jeffrey V. Cohn, and Viktor K. Jirsa
Chapter 5: Decomposing Muscle Activity in Motor Tasks: Methods and Interpretation
Lena H. Ting and Stacie A. Chvatal
Section 2: Cortical Mechanisms of Motor Control
Chapter 6: Dynamics of Motor Cortical Networks: the Complementarity of Spike Syndrome and Firing Rate
Alexa Riehle, Sébastian Roux, Bjørg Elisabeth Kilavik, and Sonja Grün
Chapter 7: Proximal-to-distal Sequencing Behavior and Motor Cortex
Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, Leonel Olmedo, and Kazutaka Takahashi
Section 3: Lessons from Biomechanics
Chapter 8: The Biomechanics of Movement Control
Walter Herzog
Chapter 9: Control of Locomotion: Lessons from Whole-body Biomechanical Analysis
Boris I. Prilutsky and Alexander N. Klishko
Chapter 10: Control of Equilibrium in Humans: Sway over Sway
Marcos Duarte, Sandra M.S.F. Freitas, and Vladimir Zatsiorsky
Section 4: Lessons from Motor Learning and Using Tools
Chapter 11: Learning and Switching of Internal Models for Dexterous Tool Use
Hiroshi Imamizu
Chapter 12: Variability, Noise, and Sensitivity to Error in Learning a Motor Task
Dagmar Sternad and Masaki O. Abe
Chapter 13: Forecasting the Long-range Consequences of Manual and Tool Use Actions: Neurophysiological, Behavioral, and Computational Considerations
Scott H. Frey
Chapter 14: Training Skills with Virtual Environments
Carlo A. Avizzano, Emanuele Ruffaldi, and Massimo Bergamasco
Section 5: Lessons from Studies of Aging and Motor Disorders
Chapter 15: Brain and Behavior Deficits in De Novo Parkinson's Disease
David E. Vaillancourt and Janey Prodoehl
Chapter 16: Emerging Principles in the Learning and Generalization of New Walking Patterns
Erin V. L. Vasudevan, Amy J. Bastian, and Gelsy Torres-Oviedo
Chapter 17: Aging and Movement Control: The Neural Basis of Age-related Compensatory Recruitment
Stephan P. Swinnen, Sofie Heuninckx, Annouchka Van Impe, Daniel J. Goble, James P. Coxon, and Nicole Wenderoth
Section 6: Lessons from Robotics
Chapter 18: Decoding the Mechanisms of Gait Generation and Gait Transition in the Salamander Using Robots and Mathematical Models
Jeremie Knuesel, Jean-Marie Cabelguen, and Auke Ijspeert
Chapter 19: Aerial Navigation and Optic Flow Sensing: A Biorobotic Approach
Nicolas Franceschini, Frank Ruffier, and Julien Serres
Chapter 20: Models and Architectures for Motor Control: Simple or Complex?
Emmanuel Guigon
Index

About the Author

Frederic Danion, PhD, works for CNRS at the Movement Sciences Institute in Marseille, France. Since 2001, he has held the position of "Chargé de Recherche" for the CNRS at the Movement and Perception Institute in Marseille . Within this institute, he joined the Theoretical Neuroscience Group directed by Viktor Jirsa. The goal of this team is to better understand the brain processes underlying human movement. More specifically, his main project deals with
the predictive mechanisms engaged in grip force control during object manipulation tasks.

Mark L. Latash, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology at Penn State University.Mark Latash is a Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology at Penn State. His research interests are focused on the control and coordination of human voluntary movements. He is the author of three single-authored book, seven edited books, and over 250 journal papers. Mark Latash served as the Founding Editor of the journal "Motor Control" (1996-2007) and as President of the International Society of Motor
Control (2001-2005). He is a recipient of the Bernstein Prize in motor control.

Reviews

"Motor Control will quickly become the go-to reference for researchers in this growing field. Researchers from mechanics and engineernig to pscyhology and neurophysiology, as well as clinicians working in motor disorders and rehabilitation, will be equally interested in the pages contained herein." -- Anticancer Research
"Motor Control will quickly become the go-to reference for researchers in this growing field. Researchers from mechanics and engineering to psychology and neurophysiology, as well as clinicians working in motor disorders and rehabilitation, will be equally interested in the pages contained herein." -- Anticancer Research