Table of Contents: August 2001

 

 

Special Section: The Brain as Controller:
Neuroscience and Biomechanics

 

 

 

Guest Editorial: Dynamics and Control Problems in Biology:
Some New Challenges
Bijoy K. Ghosh and Jiping He

27

 

 

Signal Processing and Control Problems in the Brain
Zoran Nenadic and Bijoy K. Ghosh

28

 

 

Neural Mechanisms of Learning and Control
Kenji Doya, Hidenori Kimura, and Mitsuo Kawato

42

 

 

Learning from Biological Systems: Modeling Neural Control
Jiping He, Mitchell G. Maltenfort, Qingjun Wang, and Thomas M. Hamm

55

 

 

Modeling Human Movement Systems: Ocular Dynamics and Skeletal Systems
Lawrence Schovanec

70

 

 

Using Electrical Stimulation to Control Standing Posture
James J. Abbas and Jason C. Gillette

80

 

 

Columns

 

 

 

Feedforward: Measures of Complexity: A Nonexhaustive List
Seth Lloyd

7

 

 

Student’s Guide: Sensor Performance Specifications
Dennis S. Bernstein

9

 

 

Lecture Notes: Describing Function Analysis
Using MATLAB and Simulink
Carla Schwartz and Richard Gran

19

 

 

2001 IEEE Fellows

91

 

 

Departments

 

 

 

From the Editor

4

In the News

105

 

President’s Message

6

Calendar

106

 

Scanning the Transactions

99

On the Market

107

 

Bookshelf

103

On the Lighter Side

112