Author | : Frederick W. J. Cody |
File Size | : 40,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 07 May 1995 |
ISBN | : UVA:X004039443 |
Pages | : 112 pages |
Neural Control of Skilled Human Movement by Frederick W. J. Cody Book PDF Summary
This text focuses on skilled movements in humans, while drawing upon evidence obtained in other species. Attention is directed at movements of the hand and arm, with the production of speech sounds also being seen as an important example of skilled movement. Concise up-dates of current understanding of the roles of the main motor centres - cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum and spinal cord - in skilled movement and its clinical impairments, are provided by neuroscientists.