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Referent control of action and perception: Challenging conventional theories in behavioral neuroscience - Brossura
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Preamble: The meaning of the term referent control
Chapter 1. Running away from KGB informers to neuroscience
1.1 Switching from physics to neuroscience
1.2 Moscow Biological School
Chapter 2. Action and perception in the context of physical laws
2.1 The purpose of scientific inquiry about action and perception
2.2 Harmonizing motor actions with physical laws
a. Law-constrained variables and parameters of physical laws
b. Harmonizing control of actions with physical laws
2.3 Parametric control of posture and movement
2.4 Remarkable features of parametric control
2.5 Questioning the validity of efference copy concept for motor control
2.6 A historically perpetuated error in thinking about how motor actions are controlled
2.7 Perception in the context of physical laws
Chapter 3. Referent control as a specific form of parametric control of actions: Empirical demonstrations
3.1 Earlier demonstrations of referent control in humans
3.2 Referent control of actions in animals
a. Control of spatial thresholds of reflexes: Matthews' (1959) experiments
b. Descending brain systems control spatial thresholds for muscle activation
c. Neither central, nor afferent influences per se pre-determine motor commands to muscles
d. Is referent control compatible with results of deafferentation?
3.3 Referent control underlies both slow and fast movements
a. Threshold position resetting: A fundamental control principle underlying both slow and fast movements
b. Changes in the referent arm configuration underlie arm reaching movement
3.4 Shifts in the referent position of body segments result in motor action
3.5 Referent control of actions by the corticospinal system in humans
a. Intentional changes in the wrist joint angle
b. Corticospinal influences during the unloading reflex
3.6 The motoneuronal pool in the context of referent control
a. Spatial recruitment of motoneurons
b. The range of threshold position control
c. Muscle activation in dynamics
3.7 Neurological motor disorders resulting from deficits of referent control
3.8 Referent control of agonist and antagonist muscles
3.9 Other dynamic aspects of referent control
a. What comes first - muscle activation or shifts in the equilibrium point?
b. Gradual shifts in the equilibrium state: Importance for regulation of movement extent, speed, duration and rapid action sequences
c. Threshold control as an optimal control of actions.
3.10 Major departures from conventional views on motor control
a. Descending systems influence but do not pre-determine motor commands or kinematics.
b. The first clue to how the nervous system solves redundancy problems
Chapter 4. Physiological origin and feed-forward nature of referent control
4.1 Physiological origin of referent (threshold position) control
4.2 Taking advantage of feed-forward nature of referent control during motor learning
a. Feed-forward setting of spatial threshold in anticipation of perturbation (TMS studies)
b. Further implications of feed-forward nature of referent control
Chapter 5. Different forms of referent control
5.1 Physiological origin of multiple forms of referent control
a. The Basic Neurophysiological Rule
b. The referent body configuration
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- EditoreSpringer
- Data di pubblicazione2015
- ISBN 10 149392737X
- ISBN 13 9781493927371
- RilegaturaPaperback
- LinguaInglese
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