Reach To Grasp Behavior

Author : Daniela Corbetta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429885946
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reach-to-Grasp Behavior written by Daniela Corbetta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching for objects in our surroundings is an everyday activity that most humans perform seamlessly a hundred times a day. It is nonetheless a complex behavior that requires the perception of objects’ features, action selection, movement planning, multi-joint coordination, force regulation, and the integration of all of these properties during the actions themselves to meet the successful demands of extremely varied task goals. Even though reach-to-grasp behavior has been studied for decades, it has, in recent years, become a particularly growing area of multidisciplinary research because of its crucial role in activities of daily living and broad range of applications to other fields, including physical rehabilitation, prosthetics, and robotics. This volume brings together novel and exciting research that sheds light into the complex sensory-motor processes involved in the selection and production of reach-to-grasp behaviors. It also offers a unique life-span and multidisciplinary perspective on the development and multiple processes involved in the formation of reach-to-grasp. It covers recent and exciting discoveries from the fields of developmental psychology and learning sciences, neurophysiology and brain sciences, movement sciences, and the dynamic field of developmental robotics, which has become a very active applied field relying on biologically inspired models. This volume is a rich and valuable resource for students and professionals in all of these research fields, as well as cognitive sciences, rehabilitation, and other applied sciences.

Author : Claudia Gianelli
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889456005
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reaching to Grasp Cognition: Analyzing Motor Behavior to Investigate Social Interactions written by Claudia Gianelli and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : K.M.B. Bennett
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080867595
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insights into the Reach to Grasp Movement written by K.M.B. Bennett and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1994-02-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a variety of studies relating to the reach to grasp movement and provides a necessary and valuable contribution to the field of motor control. The professions covered in this book range from those interested in the basic sciences to those more interested in practical application. Neurophysiologists and biomechanists join with therapists and neural modelers to present an extensive overview of current developments. Evolutionary and developmental aspects are included together with descriptions of how this movement is affected by central nervous system damage. Purely theoretical aspects of the motor control of this movement are interspersed with treatment applications and robotics.

Author : Henry D Schlinger Jr
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475789769
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Behavior Analytic View of Child Development written by Henry D Schlinger Jr and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Henry D. Schlinger, Jr., provides the first text to demonstrate how behavior analysis-a natural science approach to human behavior-can be used to understand existing research in child development. The text presents a behavior-analytic interpretation of fundamental research in mainstream developmental psychology, offering a unified theoretical understanding of child development. Chapters examine mnemonic, motor, perceptual, cognitive, language, and social development.

Author : Brian Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 110710341X
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development written by Brian Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and expanded to 124 entries, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the authoritative reference in the field.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reaching to Grasp Cognition: Analyzing Motor Behavior to Investigate Social Interactions written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How humans plan and execute their actions has always been a fascinating topic for neuroscience and psychology. In particular, kinematics studies have contributed to shed light on how very basic actions (e.g. reaching-grasping) are affected by manipulating target properties, visually or linguistically presented stimuli, absence or presence of contextual information. Interestingly, recent studies have also shown how the social context in which actions take place and their relevance for human interactions can also affect the execution of very simple actions. This research topic aims to bring together researchers from psychology and neuroscience with a special focus on the use of kinematics analysis for the study of socially relevant aspects of cognition (e.g. action observation, competition/cooperation, complementary actions, coordination, shared emotions and so on).

Author : Simona Monaco
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889450287
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perceiving and Acting in the Real World: From Neural Activity to Behavior written by Simona Monaco and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One remarkable ability of the human brain is to process large amounts of information about our surroundings to allow us to interact effectively with them. In everyday life, the most common way to interact with objects is by reaching, grasping, lifting and manipulating them. Although these may sound like simple tasks, the perceptual properties of the target object, such as its location, size, shape, and orientation all need to be processed in order to set the movement parameters that allow an accurate reach-to-grasp-to lift movement. Several brain areas work in concert to process this outstanding amount of visual information and drive the execution of a motor plan in just a few hundred milliseconds. How are these processes orchestrated? In developing this type of comprehensive knowledge about the interactions between objects perception and goal-directed actions, we have a window into the mechanisms underlying the functioning of the visuo-motor system. With this research topic we aim to further understand the neural mechanisms that mediate our interactions with the world. Therefore, we particularly encourage submission of papers that attempt to relate such findings to real-world situations by investigating behavioural and neural correlates of information processing related to eye-hand coordination and visually-guided actions, including reaching, grasping, and lifting movements. This topic welcomes submissions of original research using any relevant techniques and methods, from behavioural kinematics/kinetics, to neuroimaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), as well as neuropsychological studies.

Author : Daniela Corbetta
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889452557
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infants’ Understanding and Production of Goal-Directed Actions in the Context of Social and Object-Related Interactions written by Daniela Corbetta and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the discovery of mirror neurons, the study of human infant goal-directed actions and object manipulation has burgeoned into new and exciting research directions. A number of infant studies have begun emphasizing the social context of action to understand what infants can infer when looking at others performing goal-directed actions or manipulating objects. Others have begun addressing how looking at actions in a social context, or even simply looking at objects in the immediate environment influence the way infants learn to direct their own actions on objects. Researchers have even begun investigating what aspects of goal-directed actions and object manipulation infants imitate when such actions are being modeled by a social partner, or they have been asking which cues infants use to predict others' actions. A growing understanding of how infants learn to reach, perceive information for reaching, and attend social cues for action has become central to many recent studies. These new lines of investigation and others have benefited from the use of a broad range of new investigative techniques. Eye-tracking, brains imaging techniques and new methodologies have been used to scrutinize how infants look, process, and use information to act themselves on objects and/or the social world, and to infer, predict, and recognize goal-directed actions outcomes from others. This Frontiers Research topic brings together empirical reports, literature reviews, and theory and hypothesis papers that tap into some of these exciting developmental questions about how infants perceive, understand, and perform goal-directed actions broadly defined. The papers included either stress the neural, motor, or perceptual aspects of infants’ behavior, or any combination of those dimensions as related to the development of early cognitive understanding and performance of goal-directed actions.

Author : Lynette A. Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190291591
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Hand Function written by Lynette A. Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives. Lynette Jones and Susan Lederman present hand function as a continuum ranging from activities that are essentially sensory in nature to those that have a strong motor component. They delineate four categories of function along this sensorimotor continuum--tactile sensing, active haptic sensing, prehension, and non-prehensile skilled movements--that they use as a framework for analyzing and synthesizing the results from a broad range of studies that have contributed to our understanding of how the normal human hand functions. The book begins with a historical overview of research on the hand and a discussion of the hand's evolutionary development in terms of anatomical structure. The subsequent chapters review the research in each of the four categories along the continuum, covering topics such as the intensive spatial, temporal, and thermal sensitivity of the hand, the role of hand movements in recognizing common objects, the control of reaching and grasping movements, and the organization of keyboard skills. Jones and Lederman also examine how sensory and motor function develops in the hand from birth to old age, and how the nature of the end effector (e.g., a single finger or the whole hand) that is used to interact with the environment influences the types of information obtained and the tasks performed. The book closes with an assessment of how basic research on the hand has contributed to an array of more applied domains, including communication systems for the blind, haptic interfaces used in teleoperation and virtual-environment applications, tests used to assess hand impairments, and haptic exploration in art. Human Hand Function will be a valuable resource for student and professional researchers in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, engineering, human-technology interaction, and physiology.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: