| Contents in Detail
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| Preface
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| 1 | Introduction
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| I | Evolution, Anatomy, and Physiology | 7 |
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| 2 | Our Moving History: The Evolution of the Vertebrate CNS | 9 |
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| 3 | Burdens of History: Control Problems That Reach from the Past | 27 |
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| 4 | What Motor Learning Is, What Motor Learning Does | 39 |
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| 5 | What Does the Motor Learning I: Spinal Cord and Brainstem | 61 |
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| 6 | What Does the Motor Learning II: Forebrain | 75 |
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| 7 | What Generates Force and Feedback | 93 |
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| 8 | What Maintains Limb Stability | 119 |
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| II | Computing Locations and Displacements | 141 |
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| 9 | Computing End-Effector Location I: Theory | 141 |
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| 10 | Computing End-Effector Location II: Experiment | 159 |
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| 11 | Computing Target Location | 179 |
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| 12 | Computing Difference Vectors I: Fixation-Centered Coordinates | 205 |
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| 13 | Computing Difference Vectors II: Parietal and Frontal Cortex | 229 |
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| 14 | Planning Displacements and Forces | 245 |
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| III | Skills, Adaptation, and Trajectories | 271 |
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| 15 | Aligning Vision and Proprioception I: Adaptation and Context | 273 |
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| 16 | Aligning Vision and Proprioception II: Mechanisms and Generalization | 295 |
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| 17 | Remapping, Predictive Updating, and Autopilot Control | 319 |
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| 18 | Planning to Reach or Point I: Smoothness in Visual Coordinates | 341 |
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| 19 | Planning to Reach or Point II: A Next-State Planner | 353 |
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| IV | Predictions, Decisions, and Flexibility | 377 |
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| 20 | Predicting Force I: Internal Models of Dynamics | 379 |
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| 21 | Predicting Force II: Representation and Generalization | 403 |
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| 22 | Predicting Force III: Consolidating a Motor Skill | 435 |
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| 23 | Predicting Inputs and Correcting Errors I: Filtering and Teaching | 447 |
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| 24 | Predicting Inputs and Correcting Errors II: Learning from Reflexes | 473 |
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| 25 | Deciding Flexibility on Goals, Actions, and Sequences | 495 |
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| V | Glossary and Appendixes | 525 |
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| Glossary | 527 |
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| Appendix A. Biology Refresher | 533 |
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| Appendix B. Anatomy Refresher | 537 |
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| Appendix C. Mathematics Refresher | 539 |
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| Appendix D. Physics Refresher | 543 |
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| Appendix E. Neurophysiology Refresher | 547 |
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| Index
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