Tutorials in Motor Neuroscience [Paperback]

This volume represents the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on the topic of Motor Neuroscience held at the Hotel San 15-24, 1990. The San Bastiano Hotel Bastiano, Calcatoggio (Corsica), September provided a beautiful setting for the ten day ASI in aresort on the west coast of Corsica, near the island's capital city of Ajaccio. The motivation of this ASI originated from the success of an ASI that we organized eleven years ago at Senanque Abbey in the south of France. Our earlier meeting was successful in providing some coherence to a widely scattered literature while providing up to date knowledge on motor control and learning. Our goal for the second ASI was essentially the same. We wanted to appraise the main theoretical ideas that currently characterize the field by bringing together many of the internationally known scientists who are doing much of the contemporary work. It is our hope that these proceedings will provide some conceptual unification to an expanding and diverse literature on motor control.Section 1: Stimulus-Response Coding.- Stimulus-response coding in four classes of stimulus-response ensembles.- The prevalence of salient-features coding in choice-reaction tasks.- Stimulus-response compatibility and psychophysiology.- Possible neural correlates for the mechanism of stimulus-response association in the monkey.- Section 2: Learning of Motor Actions.- Infant motor development: implications for motor neuroscience.- Frequent augmented feedback can degrade learning: evidence and interpretations.- There must be a catch in it somewhere !.- Bimanual movement control: dissociating the metrical and structural specifications of upper-limb movements.- The perceptual-motor workspace and the acquisition of skill.- Effect of practice on the kinematics of reaching movements made to moving targets.- Experimental studies of behavioral attractors and their evolution with learning.- Section 3: Cognitive and Neuromotor Impairments.- Basal ganglials+