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Motor Control in Humans: A System-Theoretical Approach
Waclaw Petrynski Katowice
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Hardback. Num Pages: 503 pages. BIC Classification: MJN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 180. .
Through time, an organism gains the ability to actively control purpose and then transform it into inventiveness. With this transformation, the psyche is born. It is practically incomprehensible to direct experimental research and mathematical description. Hence, to transform rough knowledge into highly processed science, it seems reasonable to follow in the footsteps of evolution and to apply the systemic way of description of biological phenomena and processes. One might deduce that evolution has already made all the essential errors, so this path of scientific thinking is relatively free from intellectual minds. The only observable manifestation of any psychical activity of the human mind is movement, which is the subject of interest of the scientific discipline termed motor control. So, without psychology, motor control is mindless; yet, without motor control, psychology is also blind. Nevertheless, it seems that motor control may make a window, enabling a view with intellectual and not experimental methodology into the human mind. Even the physical part of reality is too complex to be described in full. To understand this intricate idea somehow, it is necessary to create the simplified representations of reality, or theories. As a result, science is not able to determine how reality is; it may only produce more or less useful descriptions of reality. This book makes an attempt at the creation of such a system-theoretical description of issues concerning the motor behavior of living beings, including humans. It suggests the very nature of essential processes underlying this essential biological process.
Product Details
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
503
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781634850360
SKU
V9781634850360
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About Waclaw Petrynski Katowice
Waclaw Petrynski is engineer by education. In 1976-83 worked as physicist in Polish Academy of Sciences, then (1983-2003) in Academies of Physical Education in Wroclaw and Katowice. In 1992 he gained doctorate in physical culture. Since 2003 he works as Assistant Professor in Katowice School of Economics. Since mid-1990s his main field of interest is the motor control. His thinking about it was strongly influenced by Richard Schmidt, Nikolai Bernstein and system-theoretical perspective by Janusz Morawski. Petrynski's work may be regarded as a specific, original continuation and extending of their ideas. Basing on them, he invented the concepts of modalities' ladder and the movements' management matrix. He is member of International Association of Sport Kinetics. In 2007-2011 he served as General Secretary of the Association. His hobby is sailing. Since 1975 he is ocean yacht skipper. In 1991-1995 he served as vice-president of the Polish Yachting Association, Polish representative in International Sailing Schools Association and Training and Development Committee of International Yacht Racing Union (now International Sailing Federation). Petrynski is married and has three adult children. In 2003-2013 Petrynski wrote scientific features for the journal Sport Wyczynowy entitled Barbarian in the Palace of Science, hence his nickname is Barbarian.
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