Handbook of Perception and Action Vol. 2 : Motor Skills

by Heuer, Herbert; Keele, Steven W.

• ISBN13: 9780125161626
• ISBN10: 012516162X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Academic Pr

Summary

This up-to-date handbook focuses on the study of action, or"motor control,"which examines movement and skill and the internal processes that lead to them. As action is interrelated with cognition, this is a vigorous field of investigation.Written by international experts, Motor Skills provides current reviews on general processes important to motor control--learning, coordination, timing, planning, and control--and on the individual skills of throwing, catching, reaching, and typing.The text describes important conceptual and methodological advances regarding control theory and timing, and is divided into two sections which analyze skill from the perspectives of general processes and individual skills.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Introduction

General Concepts

Antecedents of Action

Computational Aspects of Motor Control and Motor Learning

Coordination

Modeling Variability and Dependence in Timing

Representational Issues in Motor Learning: Phenomena and Theory

Particular Skills

Posture and Locomotion

Reaching and Grasping: Parallel Specification of Visuomotor Channels

Catching: A Motor Learning and Developmental Perspective

Speaking

Handwriting Movement Control

Chapter References

Subject Index

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