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Human Hand Function (Hardcover)
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Human Hand Function (Hardcover)
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Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the
sensory and motor aspects of normal hand function from both
neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives. Lynette Jones and
Susan Lederman present hand function as a continuum ranging from
activities that are essentially sensory in nature to those that
have a strong motor component. They delineate four categories of
function along this sensorimotor continuum--tactile sensing, active
haptic sensing, prehension, and non-prehensile skilled
movements--that they use as a framework for analyzing and
synthesizing the results from a broad range of studies that have
contributed to our understanding of how the normal human hand
functions.
The book begins with a historical overview of research on the hand
and a discussion of the hand's evolutionary development in terms of
anatomical structure. The subsequent chapters review the research
in each of the four categories along the continuum, covering topics
such as the intensive spatial, temporal, and thermal sensitivity of
the hand, the role of hand movements in recognizing common objects,
the control of reaching and grasping movements, and the
organization of keyboard skills. Jones and Lederman also examine
how sensory and motor function develops in the hand from birth to
old age, and how the nature of the end effector (e.g., a single
finger or the whole hand) that is used to interact with the
environment influences the types of information obtained and the
tasks performed. The book closes with an assessment of how basic
research on the hand has contributed to an array of more applied
domains, including communication systems for the blind, haptic
interfaces used in teleoperationand virtual-environment
applications, tests used to assess hand impairments, and haptic
exploration in art. Human Hand Function will be a valuable resource
for student and professional researchers in neuroscience, cognitive
psychology, engineering, human-technology interaction, and
physiology.
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