Reports on research into how the nervous system controls muscles and movement from crustaceans to humans. Covers the broad areas of afferent mechanisms, proprioception, reflexes, locomotion, development, cerebellar mechanism, and comparative studies; and discusses such details as the quantitative as

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Afferent Mechanisms Isolated Muscle Spindles, Their Motor Innervation and Central Control (M.H. Gladden). Recent Developments in the Physiology of the Mammalian Muscle Spindle (U. Proske). Proprioception: Muscle, Cutaneous and Joint Receptors in Kinaesthesia (D.I. McCloskey). Contribution of Joint Afferents to Proprioception and Motor Control (W.R. Ferrell). Reflexes: Fusimotor Reflexes from Joint and Cutaneous Afferents (P.H. Ellaway). Reflex Performance of the Chronically Isolated Human Spinal Cord (R.H. Baxendale). Locomotion: Reflex Reversal in the Walking Systems of Mammals and Arthropods (K.G. Pearson). Modulation of Stretch Reflexes during Behavior (R.B. Stein et al.). Development: Organization of Spinal Locomotor Networks and Their Afferent Control in the Neonatal Rat (O. Kiehn, O. Kjærulff). Dual Control of Central Pattern Generators: Neonatal Rat Spinal Cord in vitro (J.R. Cazalets). Cerebellar Mechanisms: The Cerebellum as a Predictive Model of the Motor System: A Smith Predictor Hypothesis (R.C. Miall, D.M. Wolpert). Comparative Studies: Presynaptic Gain Control in a Locust Proprioceptor (M. Burrows et al.). 24 additional articles. Index.