EPHE 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Motor Program, Motor Skill, Motor System

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education
• Course: EPHE 245
• Professor: Olav Krigolson

Document Summary

Primitives make learning easier (like lego just figure out which pieces you need to make something, then can take them apart to make something else entirely) motor skill = serving a volleyball. Might have a primitive for raising arm behind head, another primitive for tossing the ball, and another for the snap of your arm forwards. Primitives are basically glued together and the result is skills. Idea your motor system is essentially a collection of motor primitives these primitives can be executed sequentially (a complex skill) or in isolation the span of the motor primitives is all possible motions of the motor system. In the reading ** the order of the primitives could vary: relative force stay the same within the primitive, relative timing will stay the same within the primitive, order of events is true within the primitive. Primitives as a whole take in the input (all invariant parameters are still true within the movement/primitive)