Mark L. Latash

Physics of Biological Action and Perception

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Physics of Biological Action and Perception helps researchers interested in exploring biological motor control from a physics or alternative viewpoint perspective. The book introduces the idea of parametric control as a distinguishing feature of living systems. Sections cover how the CNS creates stable percepts based on fuzzy and continuously changing signals from numerous receptors and the variable processes related to ongoing actions. The author also develops the idea of control with referent coordinates to stability of salient variables in fields typically united under the label of "cognition."

Examples of this include communication (how the gist of a message is preserved despite variability of phrases), thought processes (how one can solve a mental problem via different logical routes), and playing chess (how one selects an optimal move given a position on the board). The book is written for researchers, instructors, clinicians and other professionals in all thefields related to biological movement and perception.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2018-0-04663-0
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 11mm x 152mm x 229mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780128192849
• Artikelnr.: 59353811

Autorenporträt

Mark Latash is a Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology and Director of the Motor Control Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University. He received equivalents of B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Physics of Living Systems from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a Ph.D. in Physiology from Rush University in Chicago. His research interests are focused on the control and coordination of human voluntary movements, movement disorders in neurological disorders, and effects of rehabilitation. He is the author of "Control of Human Movement? (1993) "The Neurophysiological Basis of Movement? (1998, 2008), "Synergy? (2008), and "Fundamentals of Motor Control? (2012). In addition, he edited eight books and published about 350 papers in refereed journals. Mark Latash served as the Founding Editor of the journal "Motor Control? (1996-2007) and as President of the International Society of Motor Control (2001-2005). He has served as Director of the annual Motor Control Summer Schoo

l series since 2004. He is a recipient of the Bernstein Prize in motor control.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction2. Definition of Living System3. Redundancy and Abundance4. Stability in Abundant Systems5. Control with Referent Coordinates6. Kinesthetic Perception7. Stability of Gist8. Problems and Conjectures