Main description:

This single volume brings together both theoretical developments in the field of motor control and their translation into such fields as movement disorders, motor rehabilitation, robotics, prosthetics, brain-machine interface, and skill learning. Motor control has established itself as an area of scientific research characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach. Its goal is to promote cooperation and mutual understanding among researchers addressing different aspects of the complex phenomenon of motor coordination. Topics covered include recent theoretical advances from various fields, the neurophysiology of complex natural movements, the equilibrium-point hypothesis, motor learning of skilled behaviors, the effects of age, brain injury, or systemic disorders such as Parkinson's Disease, and brain-computer interfaces.

The chapter 'Encoding Temporal Features of Skilled Movements-What, Whether and How?' is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Contents:

There will be six sections in the book:

I. Theoretical Motor Control (d'Avella, Kornysheva, Piovesan, Smeets, Sternad)

II. Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Motor Control

(Carson, Hermsdorfer, Mayr, Perez)

III. Fifty Years of the Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis

(Feldman, Latash, Levin, McIntyre)

IV. Learning of Skilled Behavior

(Altenmuller, Scheidt, Torres)

V. Impaired Motor Control and Rehabilitation

(Laczko, Gordon, Mushahwar, Rothwell)

VI. Human-Machine Interface

(Ajiboye, Georgopoulos, Miller, Mussa-Ivaldi, van der Smagt)

PRIMARY Authors of the Chapters:

A. Bolu Ajiboye Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH

Eckart Altenmuller Univ. Hannover, Germany eckart.altenmueller@hmtm-hannover.de

Richard Carson Queen's Univ. Belfast, UK richard.carson@tcd.ie

Andrea D'Avella Santa Lucia Foundation, Italy; andrea.davella@unime.it

Anatol Feldman Univ. of Montreal, Canada anatol.g.feldman@umontreal.ca

Apostolos Georgopoulos Univ. of Minnesota, MN omega@umn.edu

Andrew Gordon Columbia Univ., NY agordona@tc.columbia.edu

Joachim Hermsdoerfer Tech. Univ. Munchen, Germany joachim.hermsdoerfer@tum.de

Katya Kornysheva Univ. College of London, UK ; k.kornysheva@ucl.ac.uk

Jozsef Laczko Univ. of Pecs, Hungary laczkoj@gamma.ttk.pte.hu

Mark Latash Penn State Univ., PA mll11@psu.edu

Mindy Levin McGill Univ., Canada mindy.levin@mcgill.ca

Joseph McIntyre Tecnalia Health Res Inst., Spain joseph.mcintyre@tecnalia.com

Winfried Mayr Med. Univ. Vienna, Austria winfried.mayr@meduniwien.ac.at

Lee Miller Nothwestern Univ., Chicago, IL lm@northwestern.edu

Vivian Mushahwar Univ. of Alberta, Canada vmushahw@ualberta.ca

Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi Northwestern Univ., Chicago, IL; sandro@northwestern.edu

Monica Perez Univ, of Miami, FL perezmo@pitt.edu

Davide Piovesan Gannon Univ., PA piovesan001@gannon.edu

John Rothwell Univ. College of London, UK j.rothwell@ucl.ac.uk

Robert Scheidt Marquette Univ., WI robert.scheidt@marquette.edu

Jeroen Smeets Free Univ., The Netherlands j.b.j.smeets@vu.nl

Dagmar Sternad Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA dagmar@neu.edu

Elizabeth Torres Rutgers Univ., NJ torreselizabeth248@gmail.com

Patrick van der Smagt Technical Univ., Munich, Germany smagt@brml.org