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The intent of this book is to describe those perceptual and cognitive components which contribute to skilled motor performance in a wide variety of disciplines, including sports, microsurgery, video games, and speech. Also considered are issues in the measurement of motor skill, the development of motor skill across the life span, and the importance of individual differences in the development of motor skill. Many chapters contain studies employing the expertise approach used so successfully to study cognitive skills in psychology. Using this approach, expert performers are compared to

Motor ability. --- Expertise. --- Cognition. --- Cognition --- Expertise --- Motor ability --- Psychomotor Performance. --- Sports --- psychology.

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Active touch perception – also known as haptic perception – is of primary importance for the planning, direction and execution of everyday actions. This most complex of human sensory systems is gaining ever more importance for various scientific disciplines as well as practical industrial applications. In this book an international team of 80 authors presents a comprehensive collection of writings on both aspects of research on human haptic perception. After a theoretical and historical introduction, the chapters are dedicated to neurophysiological basics as well as the psychological, clinical and neuropsychological aspects of haptic perception. Results of studies into human haptic perception in the fields of virtual haptics and robotics are also included. In the final section, contributions from the applied and industrial sectors illustrate the practical uses of knowledge about the human sense of touch. This easily accessible textbook gives not only students, scientists and those with prior knowledge, but also interested laypersons insights into a fascinating area of study that is constantly discovering new challenges and presenting innovative solutions.

Touch --- Tactile sensors. --- Therapeutic use. --- Force sensors --- Touch sensors --- Detectors --- Healing touch --- Imposition of hands --- Therapeutic touch --- Energy medicine --- Therapeutic use --- Neurosciences. --- Psychology, clinical. --- Neurobiology. --- Human physiology. --- Neuropsychology. --- Human Physiology. --- Clinical psychology. --- Psychiatry --- Psychology, Applied --- Psychological tests --- Human biology --- Medical sciences --- Physiology --- Human body --- Neurosciences --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Nervous system --- Touch Perception. --- Psychomotor Performance. --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology

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Physiotherapy. Alternative treatments --- biomechanica --- bewegingswetenschappen --- motion --- beweging --- Affective and dynamic functions --- bewegingsstoornissen --- Movement, Psychology of. --- Motor learning. --- Learning. --- Motor Activity. --- Psychomotor Performance. --- 612.8 --- Motor learning --- Movement, Psychology of --- 599.7 --- Bewegingsleer --- Fysiologie --- Motor psychology --- Motion --- Psychophysiology --- Motion study --- Movement education --- Muscular sense --- Motor skill learning --- Learning, Psychology of --- Physical education and training --- Perceptual Motor Performance --- Sensory Motor Performance --- Visual Motor Coordination --- Coordination, Visual Motor --- Coordinations, Visual Motor --- Motor Coordination, Visual --- Motor Coordinations, Visual --- Motor Performance, Perceptual --- Motor Performance, Sensory --- Motor Performances, Perceptual --- Motor Performances, Sensory --- Perceptual Motor Performances --- Performance, Perceptual Motor --- Performance, Psychomotor --- Performance, Sensory Motor --- Performances, Perceptual Motor --- Performances, Psychomotor --- Performances, Sensory Motor --- Psychomotor Performances --- Sensory Motor Performances --- Visual Motor Coordinations --- Motor Activity --- Athletic Performance --- Locomotor Activity --- Physical Activity --- Activities, Locomotor --- Activities, Motor --- Activities, Physical --- Activity, Locomotor --- Activity, Motor --- Activity, Physical --- Locomotor Activities --- Motor Activities --- Physical Activities --- Memory Training --- Phenomenography --- Training, Memory --- Memory Consolidation --- Education --- Zenuwstelsel. Zintuigen. Motorische neurowetenschappen --- Learning --- Psychomotor Performance

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This book provides a long-awaited description of a classic motor control theory of action and perception – referent control. Strictly based on experimental material, this theory places action and perception in the context of physical laws to offer solutions of several classical problems in behavioral neuroscience and neurological pathologies. The author re-visits and refines many basic concepts in behavioral neuroscience, including central pattern generators, reflexes, and motor learning. Further, he provides many examples of how task-specific referent control of action and perception can be accomplished by the nervous system. This information may help researchers design theory-driven experiments that address the question of how actions are controlled and how changes in biomechanical characteristics emerge without pre-programming. This book may be interesting to researchers, students in behavioral neurosciences as well as to a broader audience who want to know how action and perception are accomplished by the nervous system.

Biomedicine. --- Neurosciences. --- Human Physiology. --- Medicine. --- Human physiology. --- Médecine --- Physiologie humaine --- Neurosciences --- Neurophysiology --- Neuropsychiatry --- Mind-Body Therapies --- Mental Processes --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Behavior --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Complementary Therapies --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Therapeutics --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Perception --- Psychomotor Performance --- Psychophysiology --- Motor Activity --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Neurology --- Neurophysiology. --- Neuropsychiatry. --- Behavioral neurology --- Nervous system --- Physiology --- Biological psychiatry --- Neurobiology --- Human biology --- Medical sciences --- Human body --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience

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This volume examines the development of timing in coordinated action from several different ontogenetic perspectives. Some chapters emphasize the qualitative changes in manifest motor behavior during the early growth years and examine the relation between temporal characteristics of pre- and perinatal movements and goal directed actions with qualitatively different rules of temporal organization. Other contributors stress the developmentally invariant timing characteristics of species-typical and perhaps genetically programmed motor patterns of nonhuman organisms.

Motor Skills. --- Movement. --- Psychomotor Performance --- Time Factors. --- 612.8 --- Motor ability --- Motor ability in children --- Motor development in children --- Child development --- Perceptual-motor learning --- Physical education for children --- Agility --- Coordination, Muscular --- Dexterity --- Manual dexterity --- Manual skill --- Motor control (Physiology) --- Motor dexterity --- Motor skill --- Motor skills --- Muscular coordination --- Skills, Motor --- Ability --- Movement, Psychology of --- Kinesiology --- Mechanical ability --- Factor, Time --- Factors, Time --- Time Factor --- Movements --- Motion --- Motor Skill --- Skill, Motor --- Child Development --- physiology. --- Zenuwstelsel. Zintuigen. Motorische neurowetenschappen --- Motor Skills --- Movement --- Time Factors --- physiology --- Motor ability in children. --- Motor ability.