Tutorials in Motor Neuroscience

Section 1: Stimulus-Response Coding.- Stimulus-response coding in four classes of stimulus-response ensembles.- The prevalence of salient-features coding in choice-reaction tasks.- Stimulus-response compatibility and psychophysiology.- Possible neural correlates for the mechanism of stimulus-response association in the monkey.- Section 2: Learning of Motor Actions.- Infant motor development: implications for motor neuroscience.- Frequent augmented feedback can degrade learning: evidence and interpretations.- There must be a catch in it somewhere !.- Bimanual movement control: dissociating the metrical and structural specifications of upper-limb movements.- The perceptual-motor workspace and the acquisition of skill.- Effect of practice on the kinematics of reaching movements made to moving targets.- Experimental studies of behavioral attractors and their evolution with learning.- Section 3: Cognitive and Neuromotor Impairments.- Basal ganglia impairment and force control.- Force amplitude and force duration in parkinsonian handwriting.- Scaling problems in Parkinson's disease.- Coordination of reaching and grasping in prosthetic and normal limbs.- Self-induced versus reactive triggering of synchronous hand and heel movement in young and old subjects.- Section 4: Coordination of Posture and Movement.- Two modes of coordination between movement and posture.- Afferent control of posture.- The dissociation of motor sequences in controlling landing from a jump.- Section 5: Modelling Approaches to Movement Control.- Analogic and symbolic aspects in distributed motor control.- Outline for a theory of motor learning.- A quantitative model of graphic production.- On the origin of asymmetric bell-shaped velocity profiles in rapid-aimed movements.- Several effectors for a single act: coordination and cooperation.- An intermittency mechanism for coherent and flexible brain and behavioral function.- Section 6: Programming of Movement Parameters.- Initiation and execution of