Motor Control. Theories, Experiments, and Applications

Motor Control. Theories, Experiments, and Applications. Edited by F. Danion, M.L. Latash. 2011, pp. 511, £55.00, ISBN: 978-0-19-539527-3. Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA.

By using a variety of tools and approaches from different scientific disciplines such as neurophysiology, psychology, biomechanics, computational modeling, and phsics, we can have a much more clear understanding of how brain activity can affect voluntary movement.

This concise volume presents the diversity of the research performed to understand human movement. Deftly organized into 6 primary sections, the editors, Dr. Frédéric Danion and Dr. Mark Latash, have invited the who's who of specialists to write on: Motor Control: Control of a Complex; Cortical Mechanisms of Motor Control; Lessons from Biomechanics; Lessons from Motor Learning and Using Tools; Lessons from Studies of Aging and MotorDisorders; and Lessons from Robotics.

Motor Control will quickly become the go-to reference for researchers in this growing field. Researchers from mechanics and engineering to psychology and neurophysiology, as well as clinicians working in motor disorders and rehabilitation, will be equally interested in the pages contained herein.