Progress in Motor Control, Volume One: Bernstein's Traditions in Movement Studies

Progress in Motor Control, Volume One: Bernstein's Traditions in Movement Studies by Latash, Mark. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780880116749.

This book sets a new standard as the leading state-of-the-art account on motor control by using a Bernsteinian integration of information from different fields of study. It features sixteen chapters by internationally known researchers, including four authors from the ex-USSR who worked directly with Nikolai Bernstein, the first scientist working in the area now defined as motor control. Each chapter addresses urgent problems of motor control across a spectrum of topics. Written in a reader-friendly style, this volume summarizes the latest motor control issues, research, and theories, and identifies problems in pressing need of investigation. This unique forum features 106 pieces of art and 7 tables to reflect the different fields of study related to the organization of voluntary movements and improve interdisciplinary communication. Prominent motor control scientists integrate information across different fields of study and provide a contemporary reflection of Bernsteins legacy in the nineties in this first volume of Progress in Motor Control.