Sequencing and Timing of Human Movement

Within this volume, esteemed experts and first-rate scientists in the fields of biomechanics, neuroscience, human experimental psychology, cognitive science, network modelling and perception-action studies present twenty new experimental and theoretical contributions concentrating on sequencing and timing from differing perspectives. The authors cover a wide range of approaches to these complex-movement topics. The volume is also relevant to a large range of application areas including human factors, movement rehabilitation and robotics.

Table of Contents:
Introduction and overview: Complementary approaches to movement control (A.J.W.M. Thomassen, D.A. Rosenbaum, P.C.W. van Wieringen). Biomechanical and neuroscience approaches. Simple models of walking and jumping (R.McN. Alexander). Fitts' law as a low-pass filter effect of muscle stiffness (G.P. van Galen, L.R.B. Schomaker). Changes in the sequencing and timing of muscle response coordination associated with developmental transitions in balance abilities (M. Woollacott, H. Sveistrup). Response initiation delays in Parkinson's disease patients (G.E. Stelmach, N. Teasdale, J. Phillips). A critical re-examination of the concept of function within the neocortex of the monkey (J. Seal, A. Riehle, J. Requin). Representational approaches. Planning macroscopic aspects of manual control (D.A. Rosenbaum, M.J. Jorgensen). Economy and anticipation in graphic stroke sequences (A.J.W.M. Thomassen, R.G.J. Meulenbroek, M.P.E. Hoofs). Timing and sequencing of human arm trajectories: Normal and abnormal motor behaviour (T. Flash, E. Henis, R. Inzelberg, A.D. Korczyn). Strategies in the production of a 5:3 polyrhythm (J.J. Summers, T.M. Kennedy). Timing in finger tapping and speech: A comparison between stutterers and fluent speakers (W. Hulstijn, J.J. Summers, P.H.M. van Lieshout, H.F.M. Peters). Attention in the representation of sequence: Experiment and theory (S.W. Keele, P.J. Jennings). Network modelling approaches. Adaptive vector integration to endpoint: Self-organizing neural circuits for control of planned movement trajectories (P. Gaudiano, S. Grossberg). Emergence of tri-phasic muscle activation from the nonlinear interactions of central and spinal neural network circuits (D. Bullock, S. Grossberg). Neural mechanism of synergy formation (P. Morasso). A neural oscillator-network model of temporal pattern generation (L.R.B. Schomaker). Perception-action systems approaches. Postural responses to stationary and moving scences as a function of distance to the scene (T.M.H. Dijkstra, C.C.A.M. Gielen, B.J.M. Melis). Spatio-temporal organisation of natural prehension (R.J. Bootsma, P.C.W. van Wieringen). Phase transitions in rhythmic tracking movements: A case of unilateral coupling (R.H. Wimmers, P.J. Beek, P.C.W. van Wieringen). Inadequacies of the proportional duration model: Perspectives from a dynamical analysis of juggling (P.J. Beek). Biomechanical and haptic factors in the temproal patterning of limb and speech activity (E.L. Saltzman). Author index. Subject index.