The Intelligent Movement Machine
An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 January 2009
- ISBN 9780195326703
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 160x236x17 mm
- Weight 462 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 75 illus. 0
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Long description:
In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex. The action repertoire of an animal is highly dimensional, whereas the cortical sheet is two-dimensional. Rendering the action space onto the cortex therefore results in a complex pattern, explaining the otherwise inexplicable details of the motor cortex organization. This clearly written book book includes a complete history of motor cortex research from its discovery to the present, a discussion of the major issues in motor cortex research, and an account of recent experiments that led to Graziano's "action map" view. Though focused on the motor cortex, the book includes a range of topics from an explanation of how primates put food in their mouths, to the origins of social beahvior such as smiling and laughing, to the mysterious link between movement disorders and autism. This book is written for a general audience, and should be of interest to experts, students, and the scientific lay.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Early experiments on motor cortex
An integrative map of the body
Hierarchy in the cortical motor system
Neuronal control of movement
What can be learned from electrical stimulation?
Complex movements evoked by electrical stimulation of motor cortex
The match between natural neuronal properties and stimulation-evoked movement
The movement repertoire of monkeys
Dimensionality reduction as a theory of motor cortex organization
Feedback remapping and the cortical-spinal-muscular system
Social implications of motor control
Literature Cited
Index
