Motor Control

Theories, Experiments, and Applications

Frederic Danion, PhD and Mark Latash, PhD

An exceptionally broad synthesis of the current day research in the control of biological movement
Multiple disciplines - neurophysiology, biomechanics, rehabilitation, psychology, and robotics - and their contributions to motor control are discussed in depth
Illuminates key questions for researchers in the growing field of motor control
Includes cutting edge research and reviews from internationally recognized experts
Extensive up-to-date coverage of both basic and applied aspects of motor control

Motor Control

Theories, Experiments, and Applications

Frederic Danion, PhD and Mark Latash, PhD

Description

Motor control has established itself as an area of scientific research characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach. Scientists working in the area of control of voluntary movements come from different backgrounds including but not limited to physiology, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, physical therapy, computer science, robotics, and engineering. One of the factors slowing progress in the area has been the lack of communication among researchers representing all these disciplines. A major objective of the current book is to overcome this deficiency and to promote cooperation and mutual understanding among researchers addressing different aspects of the complex phenomenon of motor coordination. The book offers a collection of chapters written by the most prominent researchers in the field. Despite the variety of approaches and methods, all the chapters are united by a common goal: To understand how the central nervous system controls and coordinates natural voluntary movements. This book will be appreciated as a major reference by researchers working in all the subfields that form motor control. It can also be used as a supplementary reading book for graduate courses in such fields as kinesiology, physiology, biomechanics, psychology, robotics, and movement disorders.

In one concise volume, Motor Control presents the diversity of the research performed to understand human movement. Deftly organized into 6 primary sections, the editors, Dr Frédéric Danion and Dr Mark Latash, have invited the who's who of specialists to write on: MotorControl: Control of a Complex; Cortical Mechanisms of Motor Control; Lessons from Biomechanics; Lessons from Motor Learning and Using Tools; Lessons from Studies of Aging and MotorDisorders; and Lessons from Robotics

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.

Motor Control

Theories, Experiments, and Applications

Frederic Danion, PhD and Mark Latash, PhD

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

Motor Control

Theories, Experiments, and Applications

Frederic Danion, PhD and Mark Latash, PhD

Author Information

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.

Contributors:

Masaki O. Abe, PhD
Departments of Biology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and
Physics
Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Carlo A. Avizzano, PhD
Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PERCRO)
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Pisa, Italy

Amy J. Bastian, PhD
Motion Analysis Lab
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Baltimore, MD; and
Department of Neuroscience
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Massimo Bergamasco, PhD
Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PERCRO)
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Pisa, Italy

Jean-Marie Cabelguen, PhD
Neurocentre INSERM
F. Magendie Institute
Bordeaux University
Bordeaux, France

Stacie A. Chvatal
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Jeffrey V. Cohn, PhD
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Arlington, VA

James P. Coxon, PhD
Motor Control Laboratory
Research Center for Movement Control and Neuroplasticity
Department for Biomedical Kinesiology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Silke M. Dodel, PhD
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

Dobromir G. Dotov
Department of Psychology
Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Marcos Duarte, PhD
Escola de Educação Física e Esporte
Universidade de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

Philip W. Fink, PhD
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

J. Randall Flanagan, PhD
Department of Psychology
Centre for Neuroscience Studies
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada

Nicolas Franceschini, PhD
Biorobotics Lab, Institute of Movement Science
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
l'Université de la Méditerranée, AIX Marseille II
Marseille, France

Till D. Frank, PhD
Department of Psychology
Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Sandra M.S.F. Freitas, PhD
Escola de Educação Física e Esporte
Universidade de São Paulo City
São Paulo, Brazil

Scott H. Frey, PhD
Department of Psychology
Lewis Center for Neuroimaging
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR

Daniel J. Goble, PhD
Motor Control Laboratory
Research Center for Movement Control and Neuroplasticity
Department for Biomedical Kinesiology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Sonja Grün, PhD
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Wako-Shi, Japan

Emmanuel Guigon, PhD
Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique
UPMC University of Paris; and CNRS
Paris, France

Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos, PhD
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Committee on Computational Neuroscience
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Sofie Heuninckx
Motor Control Laboratory
Research Center for Movement Control and Neuroplasticity
Department for Biomedical Kinesiology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Walter Herzog, PhD
Human Performance Laboratory
Faculties of Kinesiology, Engineering, and Medicine
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada

Auke Ijspeert, PhD
School of Engineering, Institute of Bioengineering
EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland

Hiroshi Imamizu, PhD
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR) Institute International
Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto
Japan

Viktor K. Jirsa, PhD
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL; and
Movement Sciences Institute
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Theoretical Neuroscience Group
l'Université de la Méditerranée, AIX Marseille II
Marseille, France

Roland S. Johansson, MD, PhD
Physiology Section
Department of Integrative Medical Biology
Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden

Bjørg Elisabeth Kilavik, PhD
Mediterranean Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (INCM)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
l'Université de la Méditerranée, AIX Marseille II
Marseille, France; and
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Wako-Shi, Japan

Alexander N. Klishko, PhD
School of Applied Physiology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Jeremie Knuesel, PhD
School of Engineering, Institute of Bioengineering
EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lausanne, Switzerland

Mark L. Latash, PhD
Department of Kinesiology
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Eric R. Muth, PhD
Department of Psychology
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
Leonel Olmedo
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Committee on Computational Neuroscience
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Ajay S. Pillai, PhD
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL

Boris I. Prilutsky, PhD
School of Applied Physiology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Janey Prodoehl, PT, PhD
Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Alexa Riehle, PhD
Mediterranean Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (INCM)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
l'Université de la Méditerranée, AIX Marseille II
Marseille, France; and
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Wako-Shi, Japan

Sébastien Roux, PhD
Mediterranean Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (INCM)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
l'Université de la Méditerranée, AIX Marseille II
Marseille, France; and
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN)
Neurobiology and Biophysics
Institute of Biology III
Albert Ludwig University
Freiburg, Germany

Emanuele Ruffaldi, PhD
Perceptual Robotics Laboratory (PERCRO)
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Pisa, Italy

Frank Ruffier, PhD
Biorobotics Lab, Institute of Movement Science
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
l'Université de la Méditerranée, AIX Marseille II
Marseille, France

Dylan D. Schmorrow, PhD
Office of the Secretary of Defense
Vienna, VA

Julien Serres, PhD
Biorobotics Lab, Institute of Movement Science
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
l'Université de la Méditerranée, AIX Marseille II
Marseille, France

Dagmar Sternad, PhD
Departments of Biology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and
Physics
Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Roy Stripling
Human Performance Training and Education
Office of Naval Research
Arlington, VA

Stephen P. Swinnen, PhD
Motor Control Laboratory
Research Center for Movement Control and Neuroplasticity
Department for Biomedical Kinesiology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Kazutaka Takahashi, PhD
Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Committee on Computational Neuroscience
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Lena H. Ting, PhD
The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Gelsy Torres-Oviedo, PhD
Motion Analysis Lab
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Baltimore, MD; and
Department of Neuroscience
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Michael T. Turvey, PhD
Department of Psychology
Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

David E. Vaillancourt, PhD
Departments of Kinesiology and Nutrition
Bioengineering and Neurology and Rehabilition
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Annouchka Van Impe
Motor Control Laboratory
Research Center for Movement Control and Neuroplasticity
Department for Biomedical Kinesiology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Erin V. L. Vasudevan, PhD
Motion Analysis Lab
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Baltimore, MD; and
Department of Neuroscience
The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Nicole Wenderoth, PhD
Motor Control Laboratory
Research Center for Movement Control and Neuroplasticity
Department for Biomedical Kinesiology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Heverlee, Belgium

Vladimir Zatsiorsky, PhD
Department of Kinesiology
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

Motor Control

Theories, Experiments, and Applications

Frederic Danion, PhD and Mark Latash, PhD

Reviews and Awards

"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