Nikolai Alexandrowitsch amber (*1896; "† 1966 in Moscow) were a Russian physiologist and are considered as one the founder of the modern movement sciences. It concerned itself particularly with the variability of human movements. He is the nephew of Sergej Natanowitsch amber.

Amber recognized the fact that movements cannot be steered by fixed neuromotor programs but flexibly to the current situation to be adapted must. Therefore the major task is with the co-ordination of movements, the various degrees of freedom, which the human body permits to adapt situativ to the current situation.

Amber publications were only translated with substantial delay from the Russian into the English language and thus the western scientists They should exert however due to the fundamental realizations a profound influence on the scientific currents of the movement research. They are considered among other things as basis for the fact that the dynamic system theory was applied also to the motor co-ordination.

Publications

• The CO surgery and regularization OF movements. Oxford: Pergamon press. 1967
• Movement physiology, Leipzig 1982.
• Over the skill and its development, Moscow 1991.
• The development of the movement talents, Leipzig 1996.

resuming literature

• Latash, Mark of L. (Hrsg.) progress in engine control: Bernstein's tradition in Movement Studies, volume. 1

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• Generalogie of the families Eger and amber

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