Motor Control

Issues and Trends

1st Edition - April 28, 1976
Editor: George E. Stelmach
Language: English
eBook ISBN:
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Motor Control: Issues and Trends discusses concepts, ideas and experimental data on issues and trends in motor control. The book contains the works of scientists who are doing… Read more

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Motor Control: Issues and Trends discusses concepts, ideas and experimental data on issues and trends in motor control. The book contains the works of scientists who are doing research in the field of motor control. The contributed articles focus on such topics as central and peripheral mechanisms in motor control; theoretical approaches to the learning of motor skills; how the concept of attention can be used and applied to problems in the perception and production of movement; and motor task complexity. Psychologists, behaviorists, and neurophysiologists will find the book invaluable.

Contents

List of contributors

Preface

1 Central and Peripheral Mechanisms in Motor Control

I. Introduction

II. Peripheral Mechanisms Underlying Movement Control

III. Central Mechanisms Underlying Movement Control

IV. Concluding Comments

References

2 The Schema as a Solution to Some Persistent Problems in Motor Learning Theory

I. Introduction

II. Limitations of Existing Theories

III. A Possible Solution: The Schema Theory

IV. Some Key Concerns Facing the Schema Theory

References

3 Spatial Location Cues and Movement Production

I. Introduction

II. Motor Control

III. Coding and the Availability of Movement Cues

IV. Spatial Location and Movement Control

V. Evidence

VI. Implications

VII. Summary

References

4 Issues for a Closed-Loop Theory of Motor Learning

I. Introduction

II. Review of Adams' Closed-Loop Theory of Motor Learning

III. The Motor Program

IV. Schema

V. General Conclusions

References

5 The Structure of Motor Programs

I. Introduction

II. The Motor Program Concept

III. Memory Structures of Motor Programs

IV. Summary

References

6 Attention and Movement

I. Introduction

II. Attention

III. Perception of Movement

IV. Production of Movement

V. Conclusion

References

7 Cognitive Information Processes in Motor Short-Term Memory and Movement Production

I. Introduction

II. Coding Processes in Motor Short-Term Memory

III. Movement Production: The Motor Schema

IV. Coding of Movement Information: A Two-Stage Process

References

8 Proprioception as a Basis of Anticipatory Timing Behavior

I. Introduction

II. Proprioceptive Trace Hypothesis

III. Proprioceptive Input Hypothesis

IV. Issues and Trends

References

9 Dimensions of Motor Task Complexity

I. Introduction

II. Motor Programming and Response Complexity

III. Information Processing and Complexity

IV. Summary

References

Subject Index