Neuro-Behavioral Determinants of Interlimb Coordination : a multidisciplinary approach / Edited by Stephan P. Swinnen, Jacques Duysens.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue -- Part I: Interlimb coordination: neural networks for locomotion and processes of functional recovery -- Sensory influences on interlimb coordination during gait / Jacques Duysens, Stella Donker, Sabine M.P. Verschueren, Bouwien C.M. Smits-engelsman & Stephan P. Swinnen -- Development of interlimb coordination in the neonatal rat / Francois Clarac, Edouard Pearlstein, Jean Francois Pflieger, & Laurent vinay -- Locomotor recovery potential after spinal cord injury / V. Reggie Edgerton, Niranjala J.K. Tillakaratne, Allison J. Bigbee, Ray D. De Leon & Roland R. Roy -- Spinal networks involved in interlimb co-ordination and reflex regulation of locomotion / Volker Dietz -- Cortical networks associated with locomotion in man and patients with hemiparetic stroke / Ichiro Miyai -- Part II: Bimanual coordination : neural mechanisms and behavioral principles -- Electrophysiological approaches to bimanual coordination in primates / Opher donchin & Simone Cardoso de Oliveira -- The modulation of excitability in corticospinal pathways during rhythmic movement / Winston D. Byblow, Gwyn N. Lewis, James w. Stinear, & Richard G. Carson -- Neural networks involved in cyclical interlimb coordination as revealed by medical imaging techniques / Nicole Wenderoth, Filiep Debaere & Stephan P. Swinnen -- Behavioral principles of interlimb coordination / Will Spijkers & Herbert Heuer -- A cognitive neuroscience perspective on bimanual coordination and interference / Richard Ivry, Jorn Diedrichsen, Rebecca Spencer, Eliot Hazeltine, & Andras Semjen -- Dynamical models of rhythmic interlimb coordination / C.(Lieke) E. Peper, Andreas Daffertshofer, & Peter J. Beek.

"Neuro-Behavioral Determinants of Interlimb Coordination: A multidisciplinary approach focuses on bimanual coordination against the broader context of the coordination between the upper and lower limbs. However, it is also broad in scope in that it reviews recent developments in the study of coordination by means of the latest technologies for the study of brain function, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, near-infrared spectroscopy, magneto-encephalography, and transcranial magnetic stimulation. In addition, new developments in recovery of interlimb coordination following spinal cord injury and other insults of the central nervous system, such as stroke, are reviewed. Neuro-Behavioral Determinants of Interlimb Coordination: A multidisciplinary approach is intended to be a helpful source of information for scientists in basic research as well as practioners involved in clinical settings. Those who will benefit most are neuroscientists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, kinesiologists, motor and rehabilitation scientists, physical therapists etc. Special efforts have been made to make the contents accessible to graduate students by means of review chapters that contain explanatory boxes. We hope to convey our excitement and enthusiasm about the field of interlimb coordination and what it has to offer as a prototypical vehicle for a cognitive neuroscience approach to movement control." --Publisher description.