Human Motor Control
- ISBN-10
- 0080571085
- ISBN-13
- 9780080571089
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 300
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-06-28
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Author
- David A. Rosenbaum
Description
Human Motor Control is a elementary introduction to the field of motor control, stressing psychological, physiological, and computational approaches. Human Motor Control cuts across all disciplines which are defined with respect to movement: physical education, dance, physical therapy, robotics, and so on. The book is organized around major activity areas. A comprehensive presentation of the major problems and topics in human motor control Incorporates applications of work that lie outside traditional sports or physical education teaching
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