Human Hand Function-MANTESH torrent

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Oxford University Press, USA

Lynette A. Jones
Susan J. Lederman

2006-04-20

ISBN: 0195173155

280 pages

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5.42 MB
The book begins with a historical overview of research on the hand and a discussion of the hand's
evolutionary development in terms of anatomical structure. The subsequent chapters review the research
in each of the four categories along the continuum, covering topics such as the intensive spatial,
temporal, and thermal sensitivity of the hand, the role of hand movements in recognizing common objects,
the control of reaching and grasping movements, and the organization of keyboard skills. Jones and
Lederman also examine how sensory and motor function develops in the hand from birth to old age, and
how the nature of the end effector (e.g., a single finger or the whole hand) that is used to interact
with the environment influences the types of information obtained and the tasks performed. The book
closes with an assessment of how basic research on the hand has contributed to an array of more applied
domains, including communication systems for the blind, haptic interfaces used in teleoperation and
virtual-environment applications, tests used to assess hand impairments, and haptic exploration in
art. Human Hand Function will be a valuable resource for student and professional researchers in
neuroscience, cognitive psychology, engineering, human-technology interaction, and physiology......
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