Main description:

This volume investigates the implications of how our brain directs our movements on decision-making. An extensive body of knowledge in chapters from international experts is presented as well as integrative group reports discussing new directions for future research.

The understanding of how people make decisions is of central interest to experts working in fields such as psychology, economics, movement science, cognitive neuroscience, neuroinformatics, robotics, and sport science. For the first time the current volume provides a multidisciplinary overview of how action and cognition are integrated in the planning of and decisions about action.

Contents:

SECTION 1

MODULATION OF RHYTHMIC MOVEMENTS

Chap 1 Jean-Charles Viemari, Remi Bos, Pascale Boulenguez, Cecile Brocard, Frederic Brocard,

Helene Bras, Patrice Coulon, Sylvie Liabeuf, Edouard Pearlstein, Karina Sadlaoud, Aurelie

Stil, Sabrina Tazerart and Laurent Vinay

Importance of chloride homeostasis in the operation of rhythmic motor networks.

Chap 2 Jean-Pierre Gossard, Jennifer Sirois, Patrick Noue, Marie-Pascale Cote, Ariane

Menard, Hugues Leblond and Alain Frigon

The spinal generation of phases and cycle duration..

Chap 3 Alfredo Garcia*, Sebastien Zanella*, Henner Koch*, Atsushi Doi and Jan-Marino Ramirez

Networks within networks: The neuronal control of breathing.

Chap 4 Didier Le Ray, Laurent Juvin, Dimitri Ryczko and Rejean Dubuc

Supraspinal control of locomotion: The mesencephalic locomotor region.

Chap 5 Barry J. Sessle

Face sensorimotor cortex: its role and neuroplasticity in the control of orofacial movements.

Chap 6 Daniel S. Marigold, Jacques-Etienne Andujar, Kim Lajoie and Trevor Drew

Motor Planning of Locomotor Adaptations on the Basis of Vision: the Role of the Posterior

Parietal Cortex.

Chap 7 Alain Frigon

Inter-individual variability and its implications for locomotor adaptation following peripheral nerve and/or spinal cord injury.

Chap 8 Laurent Bouyer

Challenging the adaptive capacity of rhythmic movement control: from denervation to force adaptation.

Chap 9 Limor Avivi-Arber, Jye-Chang Lee and Barry J. Sessle

Face sensorimotor cortex neuroplasticity associated with intraoral alterations.

Chap 10 Sergiy Yakovenko

A hierarchical perspective on rhythm generation for locomotor control.

Chap 11 C. Yates, K. Garrison, N.B. Reese, A. Charlesworth and E. Garcia-Rill

Novel mechanisms for hyper-reflexia and spasticity.

Chap 12 Larry M. Jordan and Urszula Slawinska

Modulation of rhythmic movement: control of coordination.

SECTION 2

PERSPECTIVES

Chap 13 Sten Grillner

On walking, chewing and breathing - a tribute to Serge, Jim and Jack.

Chap 14 Jack L. Feldman

Looking forward to breathing.

Chap 15 James P. Lund

Chew before you swallow

Chap 16 Serge Rossignol, Alain Frigon, Gregory Barriere, Olivier Alluin and Marina Martinez

Spinal plasticity in the recovery of locomotion.