Neuromechanics is a new, quickly growing field of neuroscience research that

merges neurophysiology, biomechanics and motor control and aims at understanding

motor behavior of living systems through interactions between their neural

and mechanical dynamic properties. Although research in Neuromechanics is not

limited by computational approaches, neuromechanical modeling is a powerful

tool that allows for integration of massive knowledge gained in the past several

decades of organization of motion related brain and spinal cord activity, various

body sensors and reflex pathways, muscle mechanical and physiological properties

and detailed quantitative morphology of musculoskeletal systems. Recent work in

neuromechanical modeling, featured in this book, has demonstrated advantages of

such an integrative approach and led to discoveries of new emergent properties of

neuromechanical systems.