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Record Nr.

UNINA9910955889403321

Titolo

Routledge handbook of motor control and motor learning / / edited by Albert Gollhofer Wolfgang Taube and Jens Bo Nielsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-47793-4

0-203-13274-2

1-283-97339-1

1-136-47794-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Collana

Routledge International Handbooks

Altri autori (Persone)

GollhoferAlbert

NielsenJens Bo

TaubeWolfgang

Disciplina

152.3/34

Soggetti

Motor learning

Motor control

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Theories and models -- pt. II. Basic aspects of motor control and learning -- pt. III. Motor control and learning in locomotion and posture -- pt. IV. Motor control and learning in voluntary actions -- pt. V. Challenges in motor control and learning.

Sommario/riassunto

The Routledge Handbook of Motor Control and Motor Learning is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of neurophysiological, behavioural and biomechanical aspects of motor function. Adopting an integrative approach, it examines the full range of key topics in contemporary human movement studies, explaining motor behaviour in depth from the molecular level to behavioural consequences.The book contains contributions from many of the world ́s leading experts in motor control and motor learning, and is composed of five thematic parts:Theories and models <



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966047503321

Autore

Lee Maurice S

Titolo

Uncertain chances : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / / Maurice S. Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-020853-8

0-19-998581-2

1-283-42737-0

0-19-979767-6

9786613427373

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/384

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Chance in literature

Probability in literature

Skepticism in literature

Belief and doubt in literature

Pragmatism in literature

Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century

Christianity and literature - United States - History - 19th century

United States Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Probably Poe; Method-If Method There Is; Vast Individual Error; Things External to the Game; 2. Moby-Dick and the Opposite of Providence; The Cause of the Hunt; The Indifferent Sword of Chance; At a Venture; 3. Doubting If Doubt Itself Be Doubting: After Moby-Dick; Judge ye, then, ye Judicious; Pierre and Pragmatism; "Bartleby" and Buridan's Ass; 4. Douglass's Long Run; Providence and Improvidence; Balancing Probabilities; Give Them a Chance!; Reconstructing Black Pragmatism; 5. Roughly Thoreau; Axes and Knives; Errors and Averages

Fish and GamesAn Unfinished Life of Science; Summing Up; 6.



Dickinson's Precarious Steps, Surprising Leaps, and Bounds; Romantic Embarrassments; Chances for Heaven; Precarious Gaits; Having an Experience; Coda: Lost Causes and the Civil War; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

The role of chance changed in the nineteenth century, and American literature changed with it. Long dismissed as a nominal concept, chance was increasingly treated as a natural force to be managed but never mastered. New theories of chance sparked religious and philosophical controversies while revolutionizing the sciences as probabilistic methods spread from mathematics, economics, and sociology to physics and evolutionary biology. Chance also became more visible in everyday life, as Americans attempted to control its power through weather forecasting, insurance policies, military strategy, a