Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Vise, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Muscle Spindle
23 Feb 2013
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The ability to acquire and learn new skills. Use of light to activate specific neurons to fire. Neurons fire to specific orientations of light. Pull on the bone causing you to abduct etc. Proprioceptor tells you where your limb is in respect to your body. Designed to detect a stretch in a muscle. A set of internal processes associated with practice or experience leading to a relatively permanent gain in performance capability. Performance effect (short-term) vs. learning benefit (relatively permanent change in performance) Techniques induce learning effect which is how cns instills new info. An area of study dealing with the understanding of the neural, physical, cognitive, and behavioural aspects of movement. How the brain develops motor programs and sends it to extrafusal muscle fibres. Shifferen: the brain as a computer: the serial nature of information processing, memory for different tasks: motor tasks versus cognitive tasks (ie. motor vs. cognitive tasks)
