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Edited By K.M.B. Bennett, Dipartimento di Psichologia Generale, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy U. Castiello, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Description This volume presents a variety of studies relating to the reach to grasp movement and provides a necessary and valuable contribution to
the field of motor control. The professions covered in this book range from those interested in the basic sciences to those more interested
in practical application. Neurophysiologists and biomechanists join with therapists and neural modelers to present an extensive overview
of current developments. Evolutionary and developmental aspects are included together with descriptions of how this movement is affected
by central nervous system damage. Purely theoretical aspects of the motor control of this movement are interspersed with treatment applications
and robotics.
Section One. Evolution and Development. 2. Evolution
(M. Marzke). 3. Development of the reach to grasp movement (A.M. Gordon).
Section Two. Central Mechanisms. 4. Neuronal
substrate for volitional movement (A.M. Schwartz). 5. Grasping cerebellar function (A.R. Gibson, K.M. Horn, P.L.E. van Kan). 6. Brain
areas responsible for the generation and control of reaching and grasping. Anatomy with positron emission tomography (J. Decety).
Section
Three. Behaviour Studies. 7. Object property and task effects on prehension (P.L. Weir). 8. Perturbation studies of coordinated
prehension (P. Haggard). 9. Vision and the reach to grasp movement (K.M.B. Bennett et al.).
Section Four. Clinical and
Rehabilitation Studies. 10. The neural substrates of visually guided prehension: the effects of focal brain damage (L.S. Jakobson,
M.A. Goodale). 11. The reach to grasp movement of Parkinson's disease subjects (U. Castiello, K.M.B. Bennett, M. Scarpa). 12. Task-specific
training of reaching and manipulation (L. Ada et al.).
Section Five. Biomechanics and Robotics. 13. Biomechanical
analysis of reach and grasp (M.E. Johnson, K.-N. An). 14. Reinforcement learning for robotic reaching and grasping (A.H. Fagg).
Section
Six. Neural Modeling. 15. Trends in neural modeling for reach to grasp (M. A. Arbib, B. Hoff). 16. Optimal control of reaching
movements (Y. Uno, M. Kawato). Author Index. Subject Index.
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