Human Motor Actions (eBook)

Bernstein Reassessed

H.T.A. Whiting (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

1983 | 1. Auflage
632 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-086671-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Under the title The Coordination and Regulation of Movements, an English language version of six of the most important papers of the Russian physiologist Nicholas Bernstein was published in 1967 (Pergamon Press Ltd.). That work has been out of print for some years, but in view of the frequency of its citation in recent works on movement control, a republication was considered desirable. However, since some of the papers in the first edition were written in the 1930's, it was felt that readers' interests would be better served if, after each chapter, an evaluation of the work and, where necessary, an update of the data in the light of more recent findings was included. Contributors of international renown provide such chapters.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Human Motor Actions: Bernstein Reassedssed 4
Copyright Page 5
CONTENTS 8
FOREWORD 6
PREFACE 10
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 14
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 18
INTRODUCTION 20
SECTION 1 38
CHAPTER I. THE TECHNIQUES OF THE STUDY OF MOVEMENT 40
CHAPTER Ia. THE UNIT OF ANALYSIS 66
CHAPTER Ib. ON METHODOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF HUMAN MOVEMENT 74
SECTION 2 114
CHAPTER II. THE PROBLEM OF THE INTERRELATION OF CO-ORDINATION AND LOCALIZATION 116
CHAPTER IIa. FREQUENCY ENCODING IN MOTOR SYSTEMS 160
CHAPTER IIb. FROM ACTION GESTALTS TO DIRECT ACTION 196
SECTION 3 208
CHAPTER III. BIODYNAMICS OF LOCOMOTION 210
CHAPTER IIIa. HOW CONTROL OF MOVEMENT DEVELOPS 262
CHAPTER IIIb. BIODYNAMICS OF LOCOMOTION, FORTY YEARS LATER 302
SECTION 4 380
CHAPTER IV. SOME EMERGENT PROBLMS OF THE REGULATION OF MOTOR ACTS 382
CHAPTER IVa. AN ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO PERCEPTION AND ACTION 412
CHAPTER IVb. SOME COMPUTATIONAL SOLUTIONS TO BERNSTEIN ' S PROBLEMS 452
SECTION 5 478
CHAPTER V. TRENDS AND PROBLEMS IN THE STUDY OF INVESTIGATION OF PHYSIOLOGY OF ACTIVITY 480
CHAPTER Va. BERNSTEIN' S PURPOSEFUL BRAIN 506
CHAPTER Vb. TOWARDS A HOLISTIC CONCEPTION OF MOVEMENT CONTROL 544
SECTION 6 568
CHAP'TER VI. TRENDS IN PHYSIOLOGY AND THEIR RELATION TO CYBERNETICS 570
CHAPTER VIa. FROM SYNERGIES AND EMBRYOS TO MOTOR SCHEMAS 584
CHAPTER VIb. CONTROL THEORY AND CYBERNETIC ASPECTS OF MOTOR SYSTEMS 602
REFERENCES FROM ORIGINAL TEXT OF BERNSTEIN 610
AUTHOR INDEX 616
SUBJECT INDEX 644

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.12.1983
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• ISBN-10: 0-08-086671-9 / 0080866719
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-086671-0 / 9780080866710