9780195326703-0195326709-The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System

The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System

ISBN-13: 9780195326703
ISBN-10: 0195326709
Edition: 1
Author: Michael Graziano
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780195326703
ISBN-10: 0195326709
Edition: 1
Author: Michael Graziano
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 224 pages

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The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System (ISBN-13: 9780195326703 and ISBN-10: 0195326709), written by authors Michael Graziano, was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Leadership & Motivation (Management & Leadership) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Leadership & Motivation books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.32.

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In The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System, Michael Graziano offers a fundamentally new theory of motor cortex organization: the rendering of the movement repertoire onto the cortex. The action repertoire of an animal is highly dimensional, whereas the cortical sheet is two-dimensional. Rendering the action space onto the cortex therefore results in a complex pattern, explaining the otherwise inexplicable details of the motor cortex organization. This clearly written book book includes a complete history of motor cortex research from its discovery to the present, a discussion of the major issues in motor cortex research, and an account of recent experiments that led to Graziano's "action map" view. Though focused on the motor cortex, the book includes a range of topics from an explanation of how primates put food in their mouths, to the origins of social beahvior such as smiling and laughing, to the mysterious link between movement disorders and autism. This book is written for a general audience, and should be of interest to experts, students, and the scientific lay.

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