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Multisensory Control of Posture

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. T. Mergner

    1. University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  2. F. Hlavačka

    1. Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Multisensory Control of Movements at Spinal Levels and Its Supraspinal Modulation

    • E. D. Schomburg
    Pages 1-7

  3. Involvement of Deep Cerebellar Nuclei in Attentive and Orienting Motor Responses

    • J. M. Delgado-Garcia, A. Gruart
    Pages 9-14

  4. Adaptability of Adult Mammalian Motoneurons to New Motor Tasks

    • A. Gruart, A. Gunkel, W. F. Neiss, E. Stennert, J. M. Delgado-Garcia
    Pages 15-20

  5. Type I Medial Vestibular Neurons During Alertness, Following Adaptation, and During Rem Sleep Episodes in the Head-Fixed Guinea-Pig

    • M. Serafin, M. Mühlethaler, P. P. Vidal
    Pages 21-32

  6. Adaptive Changes in Gain of the Vestibulospinal Reflex During Sustained Neck-Vestibular Stimulation

    • O. Pompeiano
    Pages 33-41

  7. Neural Integration of Visual Information and Direction of Gravity in Prestriate Cortex of the Alert Monkey

    • X. M. Sauvan, E. Peterhans
    Pages 43-49

  8. Primate Vestibular Cortices and Spatial Orientation

    • O. -J. Grüsser, W. O. Guldin
    Pages 51-62

  9. Proprioceptive and Cutaneous Feedback in the Modulation of Cortical Output in Man

    • P. H. Ellaway
    Pages 63-67

  10. The Role of Proprioceptive and Vestibular Inputs in Triggering Human Balance Corrections

    • J. H. J. Allum, F. Honegger
    Pages 69-82

  11. Characteristics of Head and Neck Stabilization in Two Planes of Motion

    • E. A. Keshner, G. Peng, T. Hain, B. W. Peterson
    Pages 83-94

  12. Principal Component Analysis of Axial Synergies During Upper Trunk Forward Bending in Human

    • A. Alexandrov, A. Frolov, J. Massion
    Pages 95-101

  13. Do Equilibrium Constraints Determine the Center of Mass Position During Movement?

    • J. Massion, L. Mouchnino, S. Vernazza
    Pages 103-107

  14. Selection of Postural Adjustments in Sitting Infants

    • Mijna Hadders-Algra, Hans Forssberg
    Pages 109-115

  15. Development of Bilateral Limb Coordination in Humans

    • W. Berger, V. Dietz
    Pages 117-120

  16. Volitional Versus Reflex Control in Ocular Pursuit

    • G. R. Barnes
    Pages 121-129

  17. Classification of Visual Processes for the Control of Posture and Locomotion

    • George J. Andersen
    Pages 131-138

  18. Differential Influence of a Visual Flow Pattern on Emg-Activity of Antagonistic Leg Muscles During Unstable Stance

    • V. Dietz, M. Schubert, W. Berger
    Pages 139-145

  19. The Formation of the Visual and the Postural Vertical

    • H. Mittelstaedt
    Pages 147-155

  20. Visual-Vestibular Interaction for Human Ego-Motion Perception

    • Th. Mergner, G. Schweigart, O. Kolev, F. Hlavačka, W. Becker
    Pages 157-167
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From recent developments in the rapidly growing area of neuroscience it has become increasingly clear that a simplistic description of brain function as a broad collection of simple input-output relations is quite inadequate. Introspection already tells us that our motor behavior is guided by a complex interplay between many inputs from the outside world and from our internal "milieu," internal models of ourselves and the outside world, memory content, directed attention, volition, and so forth. Also, our motor activity normally involves more than a circumscribed group of muscles, even if we intend to move only one effector organ. For example, a reaching movement or a reorientation of a sensory organ almost invariably requires a pattern of preparatory or assisting activities in other parts of the body, like the ones that maintain the body's equilibrium. The present volume is a summary of the papers presented at the symposium "Sensory Interaction in Posture and Movement Control" that was held at Smolenice Castle near Bratislava, Slovakia, as a Satellite Symposium to the ENA Meeting 1994 in Vienna. The focus of this meeting was not only restricted to the "classical" sensory interactions such as between vestibular and visual signals, or between otolith and semicircular canal inputs. Rather, the symposium tried to consider also the interplay between perception and action, between reflexive and volitional motor acts as well as between sensory driven or self-initi­ ated motor acts and reafferent inputs.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    T. Mergner

  • Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

    F. Hlavačka

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