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Enhancing Performance for Action and Perception

Multisensory integration, Neuroplasticity and Neuroprosthetics, Part II

  • 1st Edition, Volume 192 - July 16, 2011
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Franco Lepore, Andrea Green, C. Elaine Chapman, John F Kalaska
  • Language: English

This volume of Progess in Brain Research follows on from the 32nd International Symposium of the Groupe de recherche sur le système nerveux central (GRSNC), May 2010, and aims to p… Read more

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This volume of Progess in Brain Research follows on from the 32nd International Symposium of the Groupe de recherche sur le système nerveux central (GRSNC), May 2010, and aims to provide an overview of the various neural mechanisms that contribute to learning new motor and sensory skills, and to adapting to changed circumstances, including the use of devices and implants to substitute for lost sensory or motor abilities (brain machine interfaces). The focus is on recent developments covering five major themes:

  • Mechanisms to improve motor performance
  • Neuro-rehabilitation of motor function
  • Mechanisms to enhance sensory perception
  • Cross modal interationc for enhancing sensorimotor performance
  • Assistive technologies to enhance sensorimotor performance

This volume focuses on the translation of scientific knowledge into applications and strategies that can help restore lost function following injury or disease including assistive neuroprosthetic technologies to enhance sensorimotor performance and neurorehabilitation.

Key features

  • Leading authors review the state-of-the-art in their field of investigation and provide their views and perspectives for future research
  • Chapters are extensively referenced to provide readers with a comprehensive list of resources on the topics covered
  • All chapters include comprehensive background information and are written in a clear form that is also accessible to the non-specialist

Readership

Neuroscientists, psychologists, neurologists

Table of contents

SECTION I: Assistive Technologies To Enhance Sensorimotor Performance

  1. Building the Bionic Eye: An Emerging Reality and OpportunityLotfi B. Merabet

  2. Insights from darkness: What the study of blindness has taught us about brain structure and functionRon Kupers and Maurice Ptito

  3. A dynamical systems view of motor preparation: Implications for neural prosthetic system designKrishna V. Shenoy, Matthew T. Kaufman, Maneesh Sahani, and Mark M. Churchland

  4. Physically Interactive Robotic Technology for NeuroMotor RehabilitationNeville Hogan & Hermano I. Krebs

  5. Sensory Feedback for Upper Limb ProsthesesSteven S. Hsiao, Michael Fettiplace, Bejan Darbandi

  6. Stimulus-driven changes in sensorimotor behavior and neuronal functional connectivity: Application to brain machine interfaces and neurorehabilitationJames M. Rebesco, Lee E. Miller

  7. Inference from populations: going beyond modelsSteven M. Chase & Andrew B. Schwartz

  8. Tactile communication systems: Optimizing the display of informationLynette A. Jones

  9. Understanding Haptics by Evolving Mechatronic SystemsGerald E. Loeb, George A. Tsianos, Jeremy A. Fishel, Nicholas Wettels and Stefan Schaal

    10. SECTION II: Neurorehabilitation

  10. Technology Improves Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Jan Kowalczewski and Arthur Prochazka.

  11. Guiding task-oriented gait training after stroke or spinal cord injury (SCI) by means of a biomechanical gait analysis.Sylvie Nadeau , Cyril Duclos , Laurent Bouyer and Carol L. Richards

  12. Involvement of the corticospinal tract in the control of human gaitDorothy Barthélemy, Michael J. Grey, Jens Bo Nielsen, Laurent Bouyer

  13. Vision restoration after brain and retina damage: the "Residual Vision Activation Theory"Bernhard A. Sabel, Petra Henrich-Noack, Anton Fedorov and Carolin Gall

  14. Real-Time Functional Magnetic Imaging – Brain Computer Interface And Virtual Reality: Promising Tools For The Treatment Of PaedophiliaPatrice Renaud, Christian Joyal, Mathieu Goyette, Niels Birbaumer

  15. Shaping plasticity to enhance recovery after injuryNuma Dancause, PT, PhD & Randolph J. Nudo, PhD

Review quotes

"This is a great resource for those looking for a collection of studies on neural plasticity and neural mechanisms covered at the annual symposium. It clearly highlights some of the innovations made in the field and does so in a concise and organized manner."—Doody.com, October 2013

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 192
  • Published: July 16, 2011
  • Language: English

About the editors

FL

Franco Lepore

Affiliations and expertise
Dépt de psychologie, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada

AG

Andrea Green

Affiliations and expertise
Dépt de psychologie, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada

CC

C. Elaine Chapman

Affiliations and expertise
Dépt de psychologie, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada

JK

John F Kalaska

Affiliations and expertise
Dépt de psychologie, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada

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