Chapter 10 Handwriting movement control

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the psychological, neurological, biomechanical, and computational theories of handwriting production. Handwriting may have many features in common with these related motor skills so that a unified theory of these skills seems feasible. However, a unified cognitive theory of all motor skills, including grasping, posture, gait, jumping, or navigation is still lacking. The chapter presents the skill of handwriting in the context of other motor skills and general motor concepts. However, handwriting skill includes only a limited domain of the basic motor skills. This may limit generalization of the knowledge of the handwriting motor system to other motor skills; but at the same time, this limited domain allows simpler theories. Many other computational models for specific purposes, such as automatic online handwriting recognition and signature verification, exist. Appropriate models attempt to describe the handwriting pattern in a parsimonious set of parameters that may suggest that these parameters are less sensitive to motor noise and primarily express the underlying movement information.

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