Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

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

Document Summary

There are three levels of analyses: performance outcome, describing the movement, measuring activity of the central nervous system. Performers who can accomplish an action in a given time are efficient: reaction time/response latency: more. The speed at which you can detect stimulus. Reaction time tasks: simple reaction time (srt, choice reaction time (crt, discriminant reaction time (drt) *reaction time + movement time = total response time. * in order to get a pure measure of reaction time, you vary the foreperiod to prevent anticipation. Simple rt: one stimulus, one response, leads to a pure measure of stimulus identification (around 210 ms), not high level control. Discriminant rt: multiple stimuli, only one response, have to inhibit other responses. Can"t perform if there is damage to frontal lobe. Those with scitzophrenia, autism or frontal lobe lesions will have problems with inhibitory control and cannot inhibit a response. They will left their finger when any of the lights come on.