Development of Timing Control and Temporal Organization in Coordinated Action (eBook)

Invariant Relative Timing, Rhythms and Coordination

J. Fagard, P.H. Wolff (Herausgeber)

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1991 | 1. Auflage
397 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-086735-9 (ISBN)

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This volume examines the development of timing in coordinated action from several different ontogenetic perspectives. Some chapters emphasize the qualitative changes in manifest motor behavior during the early growth years and examine the relation between temporal characteristics of pre- and perinatal movements and goal directed actions with qualitatively different rules of temporal organization. Other contributors stress the developmentally invariant timing characteristics of species-typical and perhaps genetically programmed motor patterns of nonhuman organisms.
Also examined is the molecular machinery that generates circumscribed motor patterns with stable temporal characteristics, as well as the reversible influences of peripheral feedback on and the interactions among discrete pattern generators. Despite their basic theoretical differences, both formulations imply the same generic hypothesis: that the temporal characteristics of manifest movement or action are controlled by central agencies acting on the peripheral skeleto-muscular system in a hierarchic top-down mode.

Inhalt

Cover 1
TOC$Contents 6
List of Contributors 8
Preface 12
Section I: Theoretical considerations on the concept of timing in motor coordination. 16
CH$Chapter 1. Timing control in motor sequences 18
CH$Chapter 2. Invariant relative timing in motor-program theory 54
CH$Chapter 3. Relative timing from the perspective of dynamic pattern theory: stability and instability 86
CH$Chapter 4. Central generators and the spatio-temporal pattern of movements 110
Section II: Current research on temporal patterns of movements in early motor development. 134
CH$Chapter 5. Endogenous motor rhythms in young infants 136
CH$Chapter 6. Evidence and role of rhythmic organization in early vocal development in human infants 152
CH$Chapter 7. The role of reflexes in the patterning of limb movements in the first six months of life 168
CH$Chapter 8. Development of infant manual skills: motor programs, schemata, or dynamic systems? 192
CH$Chapter 9. Timing in motor development as emergent process and product 218
CH$Chapter 10. Soft assembly of an infant locomotor action system 230
CH$Chapter 11. Timing invariances in toddlers' gait 248
CH$Chapter 12. The development of intralimb coordination in the first six months of walking 262
Section III: Current research on development of timing during childhood. 276
CH$Chapter 13. How to study movement in children 278
CH$Chapter 14. Coordinative structures and the development of relative timing in a pointing task 298
CH$Chapter 15. Synchronization and desynchronization in bimanual coordination a developmental perspective 322
CH$Chapter 16. The development of timing across four limbs: can simplicity produce complexity? 340
Section IV: Discussion paper 356
CH$Chapter 17. The role of timing in motor development 358
IDX$Index 384
Author Index 384
Subject Index 402

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.1991
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-086735-9 / 0080867359
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-086735-9 / 9780080867359