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This single volume brings together both theoretical developments in the field of motor control and their translation into such fields as movement disorders, motor rehabilitation, robotics, prosthetics, brain-machine interface, and skill learning. Motor control has established itself as an area of scientific research characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach. Its goal is to promote cooperation and mutual understanding among researchers addressing different aspects of the complex phenomenon of motor coordination. Topics covered include recent theoretical advances from various fields, the neurophysiology of complex natural movements, the equilibrium-point hypothesis, motor learning of skilled behaviors, the effects of age, brain injury, or systemic disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease, and brain-computer interfaces. The chapter ‘Encoding Temporal Features of Skilled Movements-What, Whether and How?’ is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. 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. 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 (Altenmller, 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 Altenmller Univ. Hannover, Germany eckart.altenmueller@hmtm-hannover.de Richard 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 Hermsdrfer Tech. Univ. Mnchen, 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.edu Davide 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
