Enhancing Performance for Action and Perception: Multisensory integration, Neuroplasticity and Neuroprosthetics, Part II

This volume of Progess in Brain Research follows on from the 32nd International Symposium of the Groupe de recherche sur le système nerveux central (GRSNC), May 2010, and aims to provide an overview of the various neural mechanisms that contribute to learning new motor and sensory skills, and to adapting to changed circumstances, including the use of devices and implants to substitute for lost sensory or motor abilities (brain machine interfaces). The focus is on recent developments covering five major themes:

Mechanisms to improve motor performanceNeuro-rehabilitation of motor functionMechanisms to enhance sensory perceptionCross modal interationc for enhancing sensorimotor performanceAssistive technologies to enhance sensorimotor performance

This volume focuses on the translation of scientific knowledge into applications and strategies that can help restore lost function following injury or disease including assistive neuroprosthetic technologies to enhance sensorimotor performance and neurorehabilitation.

Leading authors review the state-of-the-art in their field of investigation and provide their views and perspectives for future researchChapters are extensively referenced to provide readers with a comprehensive list of resources on the topics coveredAll chapters include comprehensive background information and are written in a clear form that is also accessible to the non-specialist

SECTION I: Assistive Technologies To Enhance Sensorimotor Performance

1. Building the Bionic Eye: An Emerging Reality and Opportunity Lotfi B. Merabet
2. Insights from darkness: What the study of blindness has taught us about brain structure and function Ron Kupers and Maurice Ptito
3. A dynamical systems view of motor preparation: Implications for neural prosthetic system design Krishna V. Shenoy, Matthew T. Kaufman, Maneesh Sahani, and Mark M. Churchland
4. Physically Interactive Robotic Technology for NeuroMotor Rehabilitation Neville Hogan & Hermano I. Krebs
5. Sensory Feedback for Upper Limb Prostheses Steven S. Hsiao, Michael Fettiplace, Bejan Darbandi
6. Stimulus-driven changes in sensorimotor behavior and neuronal functional connectivity: Application to brain machine interfaces and neurorehabilitation James M. Rebesco, Lee E. Miller
7. Inference from populations: going beyond models Steven M. Chase & Andrew B. Schwartz
8. Tactile communication systems: Optimizing the display of information Lynette A. Jones
9. Understanding Haptics by Evolving Mechatronic Systems Gerald E. Loeb, George A. Tsianos, Jeremy A. Fishel, Nicholas Wettels and Stefan Schaal

SECTION II: Neurorehabilitation

10. Technology Improves Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Jan Kowalczewski and Arthur Prochazka.
11. Guiding task-oriented gait training after stroke or spinal cord injury (SCI) by means of a biomechanical gait analysis. Sylvie Nadeau , Cyril Duclos , Laurent Bouyer and Carol L. Richards
12. Involvement of the corticospinal tract in the control of human gait Dorothy Barthélemy, Michael J. Grey, Jens Bo Nielsen, Laurent Bouyer
13. Vision restoration after brain and retina damage: the "Residual Vision Activation Theory" Bernhard A. Sabel, Petra Henrich-Noack, Anton Fedorov and Carolin Gall
14. Real-Time Functional Magnetic Imaging – Brain Computer Interface And Virtual Reality: Promising Tools For The Treatment Of Paedophilia Patrice Renaud, Christian Joyal, Mathieu Goyette, Niels Birbaumer
15. Shaping plasticity to enhance recovery after injury Numa Dancause, PT, PhD & Randolph J. Nudo, PhD