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9780262024044

The Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebrates

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  • ISBN13:

    9780262024044

  • ISBN10:

    0262024047

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-08-13
  • Publisher: Bradford Books

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Our motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music, and in carrying out countless daily chores. While our proficiency at performing individual actions and synthesizing them into seamless sequences limits our athletic and artistic talents, we are not perpetually bound by such limitations. The nervous system can acquire new, and modify old, motor behaviors through experience and practice. That is motor learning. The Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebratesprovides a broad, multidisciplinary survey of recent research on the brain systems and mechanisms underlying motor learning. Following the editors' introduction, nineteen contributions report on the neurobiology of these higher brain functions and on diverse types of motor learning such as reflex adaptation, conditioned and instrumental reflex learning, visually guided actions, and complex sequences and skills.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introductionp. 1
Learning and Memory in the Vestibuloocular Reflexp. 7
The Evolution of Hindbrain Visual and Vestibular Innovations Responsible for Oculomotor Functionp. 29
Adaptation of Automatic Postural Responsesp. 57
The Brain Substrates of Classical Eyeblink Conditioning in Rabbitsp. 89
Learning and Performance: A Critical Review of the Role of the Cerebellum in Instrumental and Classical Conditioningp. 115
Hippocampal Neuron Changes During Trace Eyeblink Conditioning in the Rabbitp. 143
The Multiple-Pathway Model of Circuits Subserving the Classical Conditioning of Withdrawal Reflexesp. 175
Control of Motor Behavior Acquisition by Cortical Activity Potentiated by Decreases in a Potassium A-Current that Increase Neural Excitabilityp. 205
A Cerebellar Role in Acquisition of Novel Static and Dynamic Muscle Activities in Holding, Pointing, Throwing, and Reachingp. 223
The Cerebellum's Role in Voluntary Motor Learning: Clinical, Electrophysiological, and Imaging Studiesp. 235
Evolution of Neuronal Activity During Conditional Motor Learningp. 261
Adaptation and Skill Learning: Evidence for Different Neural Substratesp. 289
Learning of Sequential Procedures in Monkeysp. 303
The Role of the Cerebellum in the Acquisition of Complex Volitional Forelimb Movementsp. 310
Sequential Hand and Finger Movements: Typing and Piano Playingp. 343
Substrates and Mechanisms for Learning in Motor Cortexp. 363
Neuronal Mechanisms Subserving the Acquisition of New Skilled Movements in Mammalsp. 387
Motor Learning: Toward Understanding Acquired Representationsp. 391
Learning Internal Models of the Motor Apparatusp. 409
Contributorsp. 431
Indexp. 435
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