Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United States Army Air Forces, Traumatic Brain Injury, Paul Fitts

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 1080A/B
• Professor: Matthew Heath

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Motor learning: a set of internal processes associated with practice or experience leading to a relatively permanent gain in performance capability, there is performance effect and a learning effect. Leads to a performance benefit (someone gets better at a skill over a series of attempts (cid:272)a(cid:373)e (cid:271)a(cid:272)k a(cid:374)d (cid:858)forgot(cid:859) (cid:373)ost of the drill had to re practice) or learning benefit (must be relatively permanent in performance. Frontal part of your brain is responsible for your learning and memory. Movement and cognitive/memory skills are different (places in the brain) Psychology: the brain as a computer: the serial nature of information processing, memory for different tasks: motor tasks versus cognitive tasks, perception; cognition; action, richard shiffrin (indiana uni psychologist) interest in memory. Suggested that the human brain processes information in a serial nature. Humans use perceptual system to identify a stimulus. If worthy, they select a response and program a response to act on the stimulus.