KNES 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Multisensory Integration, Motor Learning, Motor Skill

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KNES 370
• Professor: Du

Document Summary

Motor control: how neuromuscular system (brain) functions to coordinate muscles and limbs when performing a motor skill, does the brain now newton"s laws, why can you not tickle yourself, when. Skill consists in the ability to bring about some end result with maximum certainty and minimum outlay of energy or of time and energy. Features: voluntary, efficient, physiological, psychological, mechanical, adaptive, ability stays same even in different environments, consistent. Control and coordination of the multi-segmented body. How to transfer from what you see to what you do. Short time: adaptation: one type of motor learning, don"t learn new skills, but you modify the skills you learned before to a new enviro or new task, can happen in a short time. Longer time learning: learning a new motor skill. Long, long time development: how you develop your skill in a long long time develop with practice, even with injury.