The Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebrates

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James R. Bloedel, Timothy J. Ebner, Steven P. Wise
MIT Press, 1996 - 440 pagine

Our motor skills determine how well we perform in athletics, dance, music, and in carrying out countless daily chores. While our proficiency at performing individual actions and synthesizing them into seamless sequences limits our athletic and artistic talents, we are not perpetually bound by such limitations. The nervous system can acquire new, and modify old, motor behaviors through experience and practice. That is motor learning.The Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebratesprovides a broad, multidisciplinary survey of recent research on the brain systems and mechanisms underlying motor learning. Following the editors' introduction, nineteen contributions report on the neurobiology of these higher brain functions and on diverse types of motor learning such as reflex adaptation, conditioned and instrumental reflex learning, visually guided actions, and complex sequences and skills.

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Learning and Memory in the Vestibuloocular Reflex
7
The Evolution of Hindbrain Visual and Vestibular Innovations
29
Adaptation of Automatic Postural Responses
57
The Brain Substrates of Classical Eyeblink Conditioning in Rabbits
89
A Critical Review of the Role of
115
Hippocampal Neuron Changes During Trace Eyeblink
143
The MultiplePathway Model of Circuits Subserving the Classical
175
Control of Motor Behavior Acquisition by Cortical Activity
205
Evidence for Different Neural
289
Learning of Sequential Procedures in Monkeys
303
The Role of the Cerebellum in the Acquisition of Complex
319
Typing
343
Substrates and Mechanisms for Learning in Motor Cortex
363
Neuronal Mechanisms Subserving the Acquisition of New Skilled
387
Toward Understanding Acquired Representations
391
Learning Internal Models of the Motor Apparatus
409

A Cerebellar Role in Acquisition of Novel Static and Dynamic
223
Clinical
235
Evolution of Neuronal Activity During Conditional Motor
261
Contributors
431
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Steven P. Wise is a Research Biologist in the Senior Biomedical Research Service at the National Institute of Mental Health.

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TitoloThe Acquisition of Motor Behavior in Vertebrates
A Bradford book
CuratoriJames R. Bloedel, Timothy J. Ebner, Steven P. Wise
Edizioneillustrata
EditoreMIT Press, 1996
ISBN0262024047, 9780262024044
Lunghezza440 pagine
  
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