The acquisition of motor behavior in vertebrates

Author(s)

• Bloedel, James R.
• Ebner, Timothy J.
• Wise, Steven P.

Bibliographic Information

The acquisition of motor behavior in vertebrates

edited by James R. Bloedel, Timothy J. Ebner, and Steven P. Wise

MIT Press, c1996

Note

"The proceedings of a satellite meeting held at the fifth annual Neural Control of Movement meeting in Key West, Florida from April 23 to April 25, 1995"--Pref

"A Bradford book"

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Our motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music, and in carrying out countless daily chores. While our proficiency at performing individual actions and synthesizing them into seamless sequences limits our athletic and artistic talents, we are not perpetually bound by such limitations. The nervous system can acquire new, and modify old, motor behaviors through experience and practice. That is motor learning. The Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebratesprovides a broad, multidisciplinary survey of recent research on the brain systems and mechanisms underlying motor learning. Following the editors' introduction, nineteen contributions report on the neurobiology of these higher brain functions and on diverse types of motor learning such as reflex adaptation, conditioned and instrumental reflex learning, visually guided actions, and complex sequences and skills.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Reflex adaptation: learning and memory in the vestibuloocular reflex, Stephen G. Lisberger
• the evolution of hindbrain visual and vestibular innovations responsible for oculomotor function, Robert Baker and Edwin Gilland
• adaptation of automatic postural responses, Fay B. Horak. Part 2 Conditioned reflexes: the brain substrates of classical eyeblink conditioning in rabbits, Joseph E. Steinmetz
• learning and performance - a critical review of the role of the cerebellum in instrumental and classical conditioning, John A. Harvey and John P. Welsh
• hippocampal neuron changes during trace eyeblink conditioning in the rabbit, John F. Disterhoft et al
• the multiple-pathway model of circuits subserving the classical conditioning of withdrawal reflexes, Vlastislav Bracha and James R. Bloedel
• control of motor behaviour acquisition by cortical activity potentiated by decreases in a potassium A-current that increase neural excitability, Charles D. Woody. Part 3 Visually guided movement: a cerebellar role in acquisition of novel static and dynamic muscle activities in holding, pointing, throwing and reaching, W. Thomas Thach
• the cerebellum's role in voluntary motor learning - clinical, electrophysiological and imaging studies, Timothy J. Ebner et al
• evolution of neuronal activity during conditional motor learning, Steven P. Wise. Part 4 Complex movements and motor sequences: adaptation and skill learning - evidence for different neural substrates, Mark Hallett et al
• learning of sequential procedures in monkeys, Okihide Hikosaka et al
• the role of the cerebellum in the acquisition of complex volitional forelimb movements, James R. Bloedel et al
• sequential hand and finger movements - typing and piano playing, John F. Soechting et al. Part 5 Perspectives of motor learning: substrates and mechanisms for learning in motor cortex, John P. Donoghue et al
• neuronal mechanisms subserving the acquisition of new skilled movements in mammals, Hiroshi Asanuma
• motor learning - toward understanding acquired representations, George E. Stelmach
• learning internal models of the motor apparatus, Mitsuo Kawato.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA28406887
• ISBN:
  • 0262024047
• LCCN: 95046159
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 440 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QP303
  • DC20 : 599/.01852
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Motor learning -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Efferent pathways -- Congresses