Action
An Introduction
by Rosenbaum
ISBN: 9780262368728 | Copyright 2023
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Contents (pg. v) | |
Preface (pg. vii) | |
1. Intellectual Background (pg. 1) | |
Plato (pg. 1) | |
René Descartes (pg. 3) | |
Omar Khayyam (pg. 6) | |
John Locke (pg. 6) | |
Immanuel Kant (pg. 7) | |
Karl Marx (pg. 8) | |
John Dewey (pg. 10) | |
Knowing How and Knowing That (pg. 11) | |
The Paradox at Hand (pg. 13) | |
Embodied Cognition (pg. 14) | |
2. Applications and Methods (pg. 17) | |
Naturalistic Observation (pg. 18) | |
Ecological Validity (pg. 21) | |
Lights, Cameras, Action! (pg. 21) | |
Cinematic Analysis (pg. 24) | |
Movies with Markers (pg. 27) | |
High-Tech Motion Recording (pg. 28) | |
Reaction Times (pg. 29) | |
Simple and Choice Reaction Times (pg. 31) | |
Shepard Mental Rotation (pg. 33) | |
Recording Brain Activity and Reductionism (pg. 35) | |
Electroencephalograms (pg. 36) | |
Positron Emission Tomography Scans (pg. 38) | |
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (pg. 39) | |
Magnetoencephalography, Optogenetics, and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (pg. 41) | |
3. Bones, Muscles, Nerves (pg. 45) | |
Bones (pg. 47) | |
Five Fingers, Five Toes (pg. 50) | |
Ligaments (pg. 52) | |
Joints and Their Geometry (pg. 52) | |
Joints and Joint Pain (pg. 53) | |
Tendons (pg. 54) | |
Muscles (pg. 55) | |
How Are Muscles Controlled? (pg. 57) | |
Are Muscles Balloons? (pg. 59) | |
Muscle Cross-Bridges (pg. 60) | |
Nerves (pg. 61) | |
Neural Gaps and Myelin (pg. 64) | |
Motor Neurons, Motor Units, and the Final Common Pathway (pg. 65) | |
Motor Cortex (pg. 68) | |
Population Coding (pg. 71) | |
Population Coding and Mental Rotation (pg. 73) | |
Some Final Words (pg. 74) | |
4. Moving in Space and Time (pg. 77) | |
Route Maps, Survey Maps, and Cognitive Maps (pg. 77) | |
Smaller Spaces (pg. 79) | |
Neural Representations of Space (pg. 80) | |
Neural Representation of Manually Reachable Space (pg. 81) | |
Individual Differences in Spatial Navigation Abilities (pg. 82) | |
Timing (pg. 84) | |
The Problem of Sequencing and Timing (pg. 85) | |
Tapping (pg. 85) | |
Sir Charles Sherrington, Reflexes, and the Bell–Magendie Law (pg. 87) | |
B. F. Skinner (pg. 88) | |
Karl Lashley (pg. 89) | |
Errors Reveal Plans (pg. 92) | |
Freudian Slips (pg. 93) | |
Action Slips and Abstract Representations (pg. 93) | |
Bow Bloopers (pg. 95) | |
Finger Fumblers (pg. 96) | |
Tongue Twisters (pg. 97) | |
Lessons Learned (pg. 98) | |
Handpath Priming (pg. 99) | |
Hierarchies (pg. 100) | |
Neural Networks (pg. 101) | |
Edward Taub, Constraint-Induced Therapy, and the Ethical Treatment of Animals (pg. 103) | |
5. Learning (pg. 107) | |
10,000 Hours (pg. 107) | |
YouTube Overconfidence (pg. 110) | |
The Case of H.M. (pg. 112) | |
Hippocampus and Striatum (pg. 113) | |
Quieter Brains Are More Skillful Brains (pg. 114) | |
Stages of Skill Learning (pg. 114) | |
Distributed Practice Is Better Than Massed Practice (pg. 116) | |
Sleep, Interference, and Consolidation (pg. 116) | |
Blocked Practice, Varied Practice, and Specificity of Learning (pg. 117) | |
Power Law of Learning (pg. 119) | |
Physical Changes and Reflexes (pg. 121) | |
The Ecological Perspective (pg. 123) | |
Jolly Jumpers (pg. 125) | |
6. Feedback (pg. 129) | |
Trial-and-Error Learning through Feedback (pg. 129) | |
Control Theory (pg. 132) | |
Compensatory Tracking (pg. 133) | |
Step Tracking (Saccadic Eye Movements) and Ramp Tracking (Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements) (pg. 135) | |
Homing in on Targets (pg. 138) | |
Speed–Accuracy Trade-offs and Ratio Relations (pg. 139) | |
Process Models of Aiming (pg. 142) | |
Vision for Action (pg. 144) | |
How and What in Neurotypical Individuals (pg. 145) | |
Visuomotor Adaptation (pg. 147) | |
Other Forms of Adaptation (pg. 148) | |
The Rubber-Hand Illusion (pg. 151) | |
Vision Dominates Touch (pg. 152) | |
The Pinocchio Effect (pg. 153) | |
Changes in Body Perception Based on Sound (pg. 153) | |
7. Feedforward (pg. 157) | |
Helmholtz, Unconscious Inference, Inflow, and Outflow (pg. 158) | |
Predictive Changes in the Parietal Cortex (pg. 161) | |
Saccadic Suppression (pg. 162) | |
Blink Suppression (pg. 164) | |
Calls across the Brain and the Zen of Suppression (pg. 165) | |
Tickle Suppression (pg. 165) | |
Schizophrenia (pg. 167) | |
Learning by Doing (pg. 169) | |
Expectations in House Flies (pg. 171) | |
Ideomotor Theory (pg. 173) | |
Embodiment (pg. 176) | |
Effects of Possibility for Action on Perception (pg. 177) | |
8. The Degrees-of-Freedom Problem (pg. 181) | |
The Meaning of the Term “Degrees-of-Freedom Problem” (pg. 181) | |
Origin and Scope of the Degrees-of-Freedom Problem (pg. 182) | |
Coupling or Synergies (pg. 186) | |
Coupling within Limbs and between Lips (pg. 187) | |
Coupling and Dynamical Systems (pg. 188) | |
Coupling, Marr’s Three Levels of Explanation, and Cognition (pg. 191) | |
Mechanical Coupling (pg. 193) | |
Walking versus Running (pg. 194) | |
Preflexes (pg. 195) | |
Equilibrium Point Control in Monkeys (pg. 196) | |
Equilibrium Point Control in Frogs (pg. 198) | |
Equifinality in Frogs and Primates (pg. 198) | |
Equilibrium Point Control in Humans (pg. 200) | |
Disequilibrium over the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis (pg. 201) | |
Posture-Based Motion Planning (pg. 202) | |
Soft Constraints (pg. 206) | |
The Grasp-Height Effect (pg. 206) | |
The End-State Comfort Effect (pg. 207) | |
Second-Order Grasp Planning in Animals and Children (pg. 209) | |
9. Onward (pg. 213) | |
Medical Advances (pg. 213) | |
Robotics (pg. 216) | |
Styles of Moving (pg. 219) | |
Emotions (pg. 221) | |
Social Factors (pg. 225) | |
Inhibiting Actions (pg. 229) | |
Precrastination (pg. 232) | |
Notes (pg. 237) | |
Preface (pg. 237) | |
Chapter 1 (pg. 237) | |
Chapter 2 (pg. 237) | |
Chapter 3 (pg. 239) | |
Chapter 4 (pg. 241) | |
Chapter 5 (pg. 244) | |
Chapter 6 (pg. 245) | |
Chapter 7 (pg. 247) | |
Chapter 8 (pg. 248) | |
Chapter 9 (pg. 250) | |
References (pg. 253) | |
Index (pg. 275) |
David A. Rosenbaum
David A. Rosenbaum is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Human Motor Control, It's a Jungle in There: How Competition and Cooperation in the Brain Shape the Mind, Knowing Hands: The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control, and other books.
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