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Overview"In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex. The action repertoire of an animal is highly dimensional, whereas the cortical sheet is two-dimensional. Rendering the action space onto the cortex therefore results in a complex pattern, explaining the otherwise inexplicable details of the motor cortex organization. This clearly written book book includes a complete history of motor cortex research from its discovery to the present, a discussion of the major issues in motor cortex research, and an account of recent experiments that led to Graziano's ""action map"" view. Though focused on the motor cortex, the book includes a range of topics from an explanation of how primates put food in their mouths, to the origins of social beahvior such as smiling and laughing, to the mysterious link between movement disorders and autism. This book is written for a general audience, and should be of interest to experts, students, and the scientific lay." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Graziano (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Princeton University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.462kg ISBN: 9780195326703ISBN 10: 0195326709 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 29 January 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Early experiments on motor cortex 3: An integrative map of the body 4: Hierarchy in the cortical motor system 5: Neuronal control of movement 6: What can be learned from electrical stimulation? 7: Complex movements evoked by electrical stimulation of motor cortex 8: The match between natural neuronal properties and stimulation-evoked movement 9: The movement repertoire of monkeys 10: Dimensionality reduction as a theory of motor cortex organization 11: Feedback remapping and the cortical-spinal-muscular system 12: Social implications of motor control Literature Cited IndexReviews<br> Controversial and thought provoking... short, but eloquent... --Nature Neuroscience<br> Controversial and thought provoking... short, but eloquent... --Nature Neuroscience Controversial and thought provoking... short, but eloquent... --Nature Neuroscience Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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