Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tiger Woods, Executive Functions, Visual Cortex

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

Document Summary

Acquired blindness (na, am) see through experience on their inger ips. Sensiive to touch informaion (born blind); acivaion of their primary visual cortex. Primary visual cortex will change to adapt, become a touch sensory part of the brain. Strength of plasicity is a factor of age (age speciic) In acquired blindness individuals the conformaion of the primary visual cortex is not as strong as that of individuals born blind. Inverted-u phenomenon; opimal level of arousal that allows an individual to perform at their highest potenial. Red curve depicts an individual plays chess; low level of arousal allows opimal atenion available to them, and they perform at a high level. Peyton manning football quarterback, to play at an opimal performance level, you must have a balance between physiological and psychological level of arousal (medium) Warren sapp defensive line player; became very psychologically aroused not alot of atenion required playing football, he was able to devote all atenion to one thing.