Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Occipital Lobe, Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Parietal Lobe
28 Feb 2015
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Attentional capacity and instruction: attention directed toward the initiation (and sometimes termination) of a movement is crucial, automate elementary componenets of a skill prior to integrating additional movement constraints. Putting practice to the test (leavitt, 1979: varied in age and in skill, 14 ilete hockey team, 19 high level (spitfires, 6 - beginners. Skating speed (time) was examined in each age-group in each experimental condition. Results: bottom line (triangles) skating only, open circles skating and identifying geometric shapes, closed circles skating plus stick- handling, line only all 3 skills. If you do them slowly, you can be successful. If you do them together quickly, both hands adopt the same timing structure: both hands end up drawing gamma or v. Case study alien hand syndrome: a hand that has a mind of its own, buttoning up your shirt, and other hand unbuttons it, alien hand tries to hurt the person.
