Biomechanics and Motor Control Defining Central Concepts
Auteurs : Latash Mark L., Zatsiorsky Vladimir
Biomechanics and Motor Control: Defining Central Concepts provides a thorough update to the rapidly evolving fields of biomechanics of human motion and motor control with research published in biology, psychology, physics, medicine, physical therapy, robotics, and engineering consistently breaking new ground.
This book clarifies the meaning of the most frequently used terms, and consists of four parts, with part one covering biomechanical concepts, including joint torques, stiffness and stiffness-like measures, viscosity, damping and impedance, and mechanical work and energy. Other sections deal with neurophysiological concepts used in motor control, such as muscle tone, reflex, pre-programmed reactions, efferent copy, and central pattern generator, and central motor control concepts, including redundancy and abundance, synergy, equilibrium-point hypothesis, and motor program, and posture and prehension from the field of motor behavior.
The book is organized to cover smaller concepts within the context of larger concepts. For example, internal models are covered in the chapter on motor programs. Major concepts are not only defined, but given context as to how research came to use the term in this manner.
Preface
Part One: Biomechanical Concepts
Chapter 1. Joint Torque
Chapter 2. Stiffness and Stiffness-Like Measures
Chapter 3. Velocity-Dependent Resistance
Chapter 4. Mechanical Work and Energy
Part Two: Neurophysiological Concepts
Chapter 5. Muscle tone
Chapter 6. Reflexes
Chapter 7. Preprogrammed Reactions
Chapter 8. Efferent Copy
Chapter 9. Central Pattern Generator
Part Three: Motor Control Concepts
Chapter 10. Redundancy and Abundance
Chapter 11. Motor Synergy
Chapter 12. Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis
Chapter 13. Motor Program
Part Four: Examples of Motor Behaviors
Chapter 14. Posture
Chapter 15. Grasping
Glossary
Vladimir M. Zatsiorsky (b. 1932, Leningrad, USSR) is a professor at the Department of Kinesiology at Penn State University. He has authored and co-authored more than 400 scientific papers and 15 books that are published in English, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Czech, Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian. Among his books are Kinematics of Human Motion (1998), Kinetics of Human Motion (2002) and Biomechanics of Skeletal Muscles (2012, co-authored with B.I. Prilutsky).
- Presents a unified approach to an interdisciplinary, fragmented area
- Defines key terms for understanding
- Identifies key theories, concepts, and applications across theoretical perspectives
- Provides historical context for definitions and theory evolution
Date de parution : 10-2015
Ouvrage de 426 p.
15x22.8 cm
Thèmes de Biomechanics and Motor Control :
Mots-clés :
Active muscles; Alpha model; Ankle strategy; Anticipatory postural adjustments; Anticipatory synergy adjustments; Apparent stiffness; Autogenic/heterogenic; Back-coupling; Body configuration; Central pattern generator; Coordination; Corrective stumbling reaction; Cost function/objective function; Crossed extensor reflex; Deafferentation; Decerebrated animals; Direct perception; Dynamic stiffness/force; Dynamical neural field theory; Dynamics; Efferent copy; Elastic resistance; Engram; Enslaving; Equifinality; Equilibrium-point; Exafference and reafference; Fictive locomotion; Flexor reflex; Flexor/extensor neuronal units; Force deficit; Force; Force-length characteristic; Form/force closures; Golgi tendon organs; Grasping; Grip reaction; Hip strategy; Hysteresis; Interactive forces; Intercompensation; Internal force; Internal models; Joint movement; Joint resistance; Joint stiffness; Joint torque; Joint torques; Kinesthetic perception; Lambda model; Manipulation force; Mechanical impedance; Mechanical work; Mesencephalic locomotor region; Moment of force/couple; Monosynaptic; Motor program; Motor redundancy; Muscle spindles; Muscle work; Negative work; Neural representation; Nonnegative matrix factorization; Oligosynaptic; Optimization; Persistent inward currents; Perturbation; Phasic/tonic; Planar movement; Planar movements; Polysynaptic; Postural sway; Posture; Power/precision grips; Preflexes; Prehension synergies; Preprogrammed reaction; Preprogrammed reactions; Principal component analysis; Principle of abundance; Rambling; Range space motion; Reciprocal inhibition; Referent configuration; Referent coordinate; Reflex reversals; Reflexes; Resistance; Resistive forces; Self-motion; Spasticity; Spring action; Stability; Statics; Stiffness; Synergy; Thixotropy; Threshold control; Tonic stretch reflex; Transcortical reflex; Trembling; Uncontrolled manifold; Vector; Velocity-dependent resistance; Vibration-induced illusions; Virtual finger; Viscosity
