0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences

Buy Now

The Intelligent Movement Machine - An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,148
Discovery Miles 31 480
The Intelligent Movement Machine - An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System (Hardcover): Michael Graziano

The Intelligent Movement Machine - An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System (Hardcover)

Michael Graziano

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R3,148 Discovery Miles 31 480 | Repayment Terms: R295 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

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.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2009
First published: December 2008
Authors: Michael Graziano (Department of Psychology)
Dimensions: 242 x 160 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-532670-3
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Vertebrates > Mammals > Primates
Promotions
LSN: 0-19-532670-9
Barcode: 9780195326703

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

The Awakened Brain - The Psychology Of…
Lisa Miller Paperback R340 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080
A Path through the Jungle…
Professor Steve Peters Paperback R495 Discovery Miles 4 950
The Two Selves - Their Metaphysical…
Stanley B. Klein Hardcover R1,346 Discovery Miles 13 460
Primate Neuroethology
Michael L Platt, Asif A. Ghazanfar Hardcover R9,475 Discovery Miles 94 750
Moral Brains - The Neuroscience of…
S Matthew Liao Hardcover R4,071 Discovery Miles 40 710
Mind from Body - Experience from neural…
Don M. Tucker Hardcover R2,966 Discovery Miles 29 660
The Predictive Mind
Jakob Hohwy Hardcover R4,951 Discovery Miles 49 510
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive…
Daniel Reisberg Hardcover R9,693 Discovery Miles 96 930
Social Emotions in Nature and Artifact
Jonathan Gratch, Stacy Marsella Hardcover R3,754 Discovery Miles 37 540
Bioethics and the Brain
Walter Glannon Hardcover R1,577 Discovery Miles 15 770
Developing the Virtues - Integrating…
Julia Annas, Darcia Narv aez, … Hardcover R2,962 Discovery Miles 29 620
Color Ordered - A Survey of Color Order…
Rolf G Kuehni, Andreas Schwarz Hardcover R6,410 Discovery Miles 64 100

See more

Partners