Coordination: Neural, Behavioral and Social Dynamics

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Armin Fuchs, Viktor K. Jirsa
Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 11, 2007 - Technology & Engineering - 355 pages

One of the most striking features of Coordination Dynamics is its interdisciplinary character. The problems we are trying to solve in this field range from behavioral phenomena of interlimb coordination and coordination between stimuli and movements (perception-action tasks) through neural activation patterns that can be observed during these tasks to clinical applications and social behavior. It is not surprising that close collaboration among scientists from different fields as psychology, kinesiology, neurology and even physics are imperative to deal with the enormous difficulties we are facing when we try to understand a system as complex as the human brain.

The chapters in this volume are not simply write-ups of the lectures given by the experts at the meeting but are written in a way that they give sufficient introductory information to be comprehensible and useful for all interested scientists and students.

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Contents

Imperfect Symmetry and the Elementary Coordination
3
Landscapes Beyond the HKB Model
26
Newell YeouTeh Liu Gottfried MayerKress 27
45
Taxonomy of Movement Based
77
Dynamical Systems and Internal Models
93
Imaging the Neural Control of Voluntary Movement using
135
LargeScale Network Dynamics in Neurocognitive Function
183
Neural Indices of Behavioral Instability in Coordination
205
Restoration of Movement
228
Surjo R Soekadar Klaus Haagen Niels Birbaumer 229
253
Dynamics of Interpersonal Coordination
280
Schmidt Michael J Richardson 281
309
J A Scott Kelsos Contributions to Our Understanding
325
Index
347
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