There will be six sections in the book:
I. Theoretical Motor Control (d'Avella, Kornysheva, Piovesan, Smeets, Sternad)
II. Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Motor Control
(Carson, Hermsdorfer, Mayr, Perez)
III. Fifty Years of the Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis
(Feldman, Latash, Levin, McIntyre)
IV. Learning of Skilled Behavior
(Altenmüller, Scheidt, Torres)
V. Impaired Motor Control and Rehabilitation
(Laczko, Gordon, Mushahwar, Rothwell)
VI. Human-Machine Interface
(Ajiboye, Georgopoulos, Miller, Mussa-Ivaldi, van der Smagt)
PRIMARY Authors of the Chapters:
A. Bolu Ajiboye Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH
Eckart Altenmüller Univ. Hannover, Germany eckart.altenmueller@hmtm-hannover.deRichard Carson Queen's Univ. Belfast, UK richard.carson@tcd.ie
Andrea D'Avella Santa Lucia Foundation, Italy; andrea.davella@unime.it
Anatol Feldman Univ. of Montreal, Canada anatol.g.feldman@umontreal.ca
Apostolos Georgopoulos Univ. of Minnesota, MN omega@umn.edu
Andrew Gordon Columbia Univ., NY agordona@tc.columbia.edu
Joachim Hermsdörfer Tech. Univ. München, Germany joachim.hermsdoerfer@tum.de
Katya Kornysheva Univ. College of London, UK; k.kornysheva@ucl.ac.uk
Jozsef Laczko Univ. of Pecs, Hungary laczkoj@gamma.ttk.pte.hu
Mark Latash Penn State Univ., PA mll11@psu.edu
Mindy Levin McGill Univ., Canada mindy.levin@mcgill.ca
Joseph McIntyre Tecnalia Health Res Inst., Spain joseph.mcintyre@tecnalia.com
Winfried Mayr Med. Univ. Vienna, Austria winfried.mayr@meduniwien.ac.at
Lee Miller Nothwestern Univ., Chicago, IL lm@northwestern.edu
Vivian Mushahwar Univ. of Alberta, Canada vmushahw@ualberta.ca
Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi Northwestern Univ., Chicago, IL; sandro@northwestern.edu
Monica Perez Univ, of Miami, FL perezmo@pitt.eduDavide Piovesan Gannon Univ., PA piovesan001@gannon.edu
John Rothwell Univ. College of London, UK j.rothwell@ucl.ac.uk
Robert Scheidt Marquette Univ., WI robert.scheidt@marquette.edu
Jeroen Smeets Free Univ., The Netherlands j.b.j.smeets@vu.nl
Dagmar Sternad Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA dagmar@neu.edu
Elizabeth Torres Rutgers Univ., NJ torreselizabeth248@gmail.com Patrick van der Smagt Technical Univ., Munich, Germany smagt@brml.org
About the Author: Jozsef Laczko is head of Department of Information Technology and Biorobotics at University of Pecs in Hungary. He also holds positions in the Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Budapest and an adjunct assignment at the Northwestern University in Chicago. Dr. Laczko earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. He is experienced in computational approaches for motor control. He has published over 40 papers in refereed journals and proceedings, four book chapters and has presented over 50 professional talks. He was the chair of the "Progress in Motor Control X" conference of the Society for Motor Control. His chief research interest is on the area of biomechanics, and in the last decade, he became engaged in the control of Functional Electrical Stimulation driven limb movements for spinal cord injured individuals.
Mark L. Latash is a Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology and Director of the Motor Control Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University. He studied Physics, Physics of Living Systems, and Physiology in Moscow and Chicago. His research is focused on the control and coordination of human voluntary movements and movement disorders. He is the author of numerous books including, Control of Human Movement, The Neurophysiological Basis of Movement, Synergy, Fundamentals of Motor Control, and Biomechanics and Motor Control: Defining Central Concepts (with Vladimir Zatsiorsky). In addition, he edited nine books and published over 350 papers in refereed journals. Dr. Latash was the Founding Editor of the journal "Motor Control" and as President of the International Society of Motor Control. He continues to serve as Director of the annual Motor Control Summer School series. He is a recipient of the Bernstein Prize in motor control.
