(Frontiers of Developmental Science) 1st Edition
by Daniela Corbetta (Editor), Marco Santello (Contributor)
Reaching for objects in our
surroundings is an everyday activity that most humans perform seamlessly
a hundred times a day. It is nonetheless a complex behavior that
requires the perception of objects’ features, action selection, movement
planning, multi-joint coordination, force regulation, and the
integration of all of these properties during the actions themselves to
meet the successful demands of extremely varied task goals. Even though
reach-to-grasp behavior has been studied for decades, it has, in recent
years, become a particularly growing area of multidisciplinary research
because of its crucial role in activities of daily living and broad
range of applications to other fields, including physical
rehabilitation, prosthetics, and robotics.
This volume brings
together novel and exciting research that sheds light into the complex
sensory-motor processes involved in the selection and production of
reach-to-grasp behaviors. It also offers a unique life-span and
multidisciplinary perspective on the development and multiple processes
involved in the formation of reach-to-grasp. It covers recent and
exciting discoveries from the fields of developmental psychology and
learning sciences, neurophysiology and brain sciences, movement
sciences, and the dynamic field of developmental robotics, which has
become a very active applied field relying on biologically inspired
models. This volume is a rich and valuable resource for students and
professionals in all of these research fields, as well as cognitive
sciences, rehabilitation, and other applied sciences.
