Note: Front Cover -- Enhancing Performance for Actionandperception: Multisensory Integration, Neuroplasticity and Neuroprosthetics, Part I -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Section I: Mechanisms to improve motor performance -- Chapter 1: Naturalistic approaches to sensorimotor control -- Introduction -- Naturalistic perspectives from animal psychology -- Naturalistic perspectives from human cognitive ethology -- A naturalistic approach to the visual system -- Naturalistic approaches to human behavior -- Naturalistic studies of movement kinematics -- Naturalistic approaches to object manipulation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2: Sensory change following motor learning -- Introduction -- The effect of motor learning on somatosensory perception of the upper limb -- The effect of speech motor learning on the perception of speech sounds -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 3: Sensory motor remapping of space in human-machine interfaces -- Introduction -- Motor learning -- What is "ordinary space"? -- Euclidean properties of ordinary space -- Intrinsic geometry of sensorimotor signals in the central nervous system -- Encoding the metric properties of Euclidean space -- Learning an inverse geometrical model of space -- The dual-learning problem -- A clinical perspective: the body-machine interface -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4: Locomotor adaptation -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5: Age-related changes in the cognitive function of sleep -- Introduction -- Changes in sleep with healthy aging -- Changes in cognition with healthy aging -- Interactions between sleep and cognition in healthy aging -- Conclusions and future directions -- References -- Chapter 6: Motor adaptation and proprioceptive recalibration -- Introduction -- General methodology -- References. , Section II: Mechanisms to enhance sensory perception -- Chapter 7: Perception and action in singing -- Introduction -- How well do people sing? -- What causes poor singing? -- Perceptual deficits -- Sensorimotor translation deficits -- Motor control deficits -- Feedback deficits -- Neural bases of singing -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8: Lifelong plasticity in the rat auditory cortex: Basic mechanisms and role of sensory experience -- Introduction -- A succession of cortical sensitive periods of plasticity during early development -- Local regulation of CP plasticity in A1 by sensory input patterns -- Patterned cortical activity maintains stimulus selectivity in the adult A1 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9: Enhancing visual cues to orientation: Suggestions for space travelers and the elderly -- Introduction -- Visual cues to orientation -- How can perception be influenced by visual cues to orientation? -- When is it desirable to use vision to influence perceived orientation? -- How can the contribution of vision be enhanced? -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Section III: Multisensory interactions to enhance action and perception -- Chapter 10: Organization and plasticity in multisensory integration: early and late experience affects its governing principles -- The mature superior colliculus -- Semantic issues in multisensory integration -- The generality of the SC model -- The essential circuit for SC multisensory integration -- The development of multisensory integration -- How experience changes the circuit for multisensory integration -- Multisensory plasticity in adulthood -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 11: Multisensory object representation: Insights from studies of vision and touch -- Introduction -- View-dependence -- Size-dependence. , Integration of structural and surface properties -- Multisensory cortical processing -- What role does visual imagery play? -- A model of multisensory object representation -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 12: Adaptation and maladaptation: insights from brain plasticity -- Lessons from evolution -- The vision from the brain -- Maladaptation -- Final remarks -- References -- Chapter 13: Sensory integration for reaching: Models of optimality in the context of behavior and the underlying neural circuits -- Introduction -- Modeling the psychophysics of sensory integration -- Sensory integration during reach behavior -- Modeling sensory integration in neural populations -- Sensory integration in the cortical circuits for reaching -- From local to global optimality -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 14: Sensory rehabilitation in the plastic brain -- Introduction -- Rehabilitation in blindness -- Rehabilitation in deafness -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 15: Crossmodal plasticity in sensory loss -- Introduction -- Blindness -- Deafness -- Anosmia, ageusia, loss of trigeminal chemosensation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 16: Adaptive crossmodal plasticity in deaf auditory cortex: areal and laminar contributions to supranormal vision in the deaf -- Introduction -- Congenitally deaf cat: a model for adaptive crossmodal plasticity -- Study 1: supranormal visual abilities of congenitally deaf cats -- Study 2: contributions of "deaf" auditory cortex to supranormal visual localization and detection -- Study 3: laminar contributions to supranormal vision in the deaf -- Significance -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Subject Index.