Kinesiology 3457A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Explicit Memory, Motor Learning, Long-Term Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 3457A/B
• Professor: Anita Christie

Document Summary

Motor learning: relatively permanent change in the ability to execute a skill as a result of practice or experience. If we want to execute a movement, we have to activate our primary motor cortex but there are many ways we can we can get to that part of the brain. *stages of learning: cognitive stage: learning basic strategies lots of variability in performance, high error, associative stage: recognize the errors being made, skill re nement, autonomous stage: movements become automatic. Limitations of assessing learning (measure of task speci c performance: interdependence of performance metrics, affected by factors other than learning (ie. injury, illness, fatigue environment, distractions) *learning is a relatively permanent change therefore, you have to consider retention as a part of learning. * steep learning curve means that something is relatively easy to learn (greater improvements of performance over a short period of time) Plateaus on learning curves are because there is a transition stages of learning.