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This book dealing with stance and motion was planned in June 1986
at a meeting held in Moscow and Leningrad between a group of Soviet
and French scientists interested in motor control. This meeting
took place in the framework of an exchange program between the USSR
Academy of Seiences and the French Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique. It was very successful event and was greatly
appreciated by all those who attended it. Several participants put
forward the proposal that the possibility of publishing a book was
worth exploring. What were the reasons for publishing a book on
stance and motion ? The interest aroused in the participants by
each others contributions was not a sufficiently decisive argument.
It was feit, however, that a large proportion of the orginal
material presented at the meeting, especially in the field of
posture and locomotion but also on other aspects covered by the
book could be presented in a summarized form which should appeal to
a larger audience because the facts and hypotheses they contained
especially those from the Soviet participants, were not very
familiar among international circles, and that many scientists
would appreciate having a single volume containing a survey ofthe
current state of research in this field. This was also the opinion
of Plenum Press, who agreed to publish the book. Each participant
at the meeting submitted a paper which was examined by two referees
before being accepted.
This volume covers the proceedings of a symposium held in Marseille
in March 1982 as a satellite meeting of the IBRO First World
Congress in Lausanne. About 70 participants from more than ten
countries attended the symposium, whose central theme was "Neural
Coding of Motor Performance. " Whereas coding within the sensory
systems has been dis cussed widely, coding in the field of motor
control has been analyzed much less. Over the past 10 years an
impressive amount of information has been assembled combining re- .
cordings in central and peripheral neural structures during the
performance of simple and complex motor tasks. Data such as those
relating the behavioral phenomena of the awake animal to
single-cell recordings from various cerebral areas have been
carefully worked out by a number of investigators. It was thought
at the symposium that the time had come for this infor mation to be
collected and reexamined, and presented in one volume. The present
book was conceived to cover the scope and significance of coding
throughout the nervous system. by "coding" in the central nervous
system? This What is meant question can be answered in general by
bringing together data and viewpoints from many disciplines -
behavior, neurophysi ology, neuropharmacology - and clinical
observations. Gen erally speaking, one may call coding a method of
communica tion, i. e., the language that brain cells use for
exchange of information."
This book dealing with stance and motion was planned in June 1986
at a meeting held in Moscow and Leningrad between a group of Soviet
and French scientists interested in motor control. This meeting
took place in the framework of an exchange program between the USSR
Academy of Seiences and the French Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique. It was very successful event and was greatly
appreciated by all those who attended it. Several participants put
forward the proposal that the possibility of publishing a book was
worth exploring. What were the reasons for publishing a book on
stance and motion ? The interest aroused in the participants by
each others contributions was not a sufficiently decisive argument.
It was feit, however, that a large proportion of the orginal
material presented at the meeting, especially in the field of
posture and locomotion but also on other aspects covered by the
book could be presented in a summarized form which should appeal to
a larger audience because the facts and hypotheses they contained
especially those from the Soviet participants, were not very
familiar among international circles, and that many scientists
would appreciate having a single volume containing a survey ofthe
current state of research in this field. This was also the opinion
of Plenum Press, who agreed to publish the book. Each participant
at the meeting submitted a paper which was examined by two referees
before being accepted.
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