Control of Arm Movement in Space: Neurophysiological and Computational Approaches - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 3642772374 ISBN 13 : 9783642772375

Editeur : Springer, 2011

Synopsis

The primate forearm is capable of an infinite variety of motions which are performed with power, speed, and finesse. How the brain generates and controls such movements has intrigued and baffled students of motor control for centuries. However, progress toward the better understanding of arm movement control is now being made by researchers in several disciplines. This volume brings together contributions from the fields of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, behavior, and computational neuroscience. Each chapter presents recent data from current research topics relevant to the problem of controlling arm and hand movements. The multidisciplinary approach adopted in this volume reflects the current trend to combine the methodologies of neuroscience with those of engineering. In this sense, special emphasis has been given to computational developments which have their basis in recent experimental results. Correlations between behavioral motor variables and neural activity in various brain regions, the neural mechanisms of reaching and manipulation control and their underlying visuomotor transformation, and the internal neuronal representation of motor space as seen through population codes, are the main topics treated at both physiological and computational level. . We hope that this volume will help both physiologists to better understand the theoretical bases underlying the neural control of movement, and students of neural networks to adopt more biologically-oriented approaches in their development of new computational strategies.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Purpose of this book is to combine different approaches in the study of arm movement in space in order to create new synergy between domains of researchwhich tend to be developed independently. It is from these synergies that a new understanding of the control of arm and hand movement can ermerge.Previous books have been devoted to artificial neural networks for sensorimotor control (for example Advanced Neural Computers, R. Eckmiller ed. Elsevier). The present book is the first one to propose a precise and direct comparison between current computational development and new experimental results of neurophysiology and new experimental results of neurophysiology and neurophysics. The book covers different levels of neuralcontrol: spinal cord, red nucleus, premotor cortex, motor cortex,parietal cortex, thalamus and cerebellum. An important place is devoted to the problems of muscle coordination, internal representations of movement variables, in different nervous regions and to the problem of coordinate transformations underlying reaching and manipulation. For the physiologist, the book proposes not only a comprehensive picture of new experimental results but also a theoretical basis for a better understandingof central coding of movement by neuroinal populations. For neural networks and robotics students, this book provides a very rich knowledge on the way the brain controls arm movements by using visual information, it can offer them new concepts and ideas to generate more efficient artificial systems having in mind the powerful capacity of the human brain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3642772374
• ISBN 13: 9783642772375
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Caminiti Roberto, Johnson Paul B., Burnod Ives
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