Referent control of action and perception Challenging conventional theories in behavioral neuroscience /

• Main Author: Feldman, Anatol G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.

This book provides a long-awaited description of a classic motor control theory of action and perception – referent control. Strictly based on experimental material, this theory places action and perception in the context of physical laws to offer solutions of several classical problems in behaviora...

Table of Contents:

• Preamble: The meaning of the term referent control.- Running away from KGP informers to neuroscience
• Action and perception in the context of physical laws
• Referent control as a specific form of parametric control of actions: Empirical demonstrations
• Physiological origin and feed-forward nature of referent control
• Different forms of referent control
• Solutions to classical problems in the control of motor actions
• Redundancy problems
• Action-perception coupling
• Afterword: Major lessons and perspectives.