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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