KNES 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motor Learning
5 Sep 2016
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Motor control- understanding how the neuromuscular system functions to activate and coordinate the muscles and limbs involves in the performance of a motor skills. Coordination: the pattering of body and limb motions relative to each other and to the environmental objects and events. Study of processes involved in acquiring and refining motor skills that promote or inhibit that acquisition. Performs actions that we have acquired over time. Action or task has a goal to achieve. Acquired by experience/ practice: has to be learned. Motor skill: requires voluntary body/limb movement, sitting for a baby. It is goal orientated- wants to keep the torso above. Without wasting resources behavioral characteristic of specific limbs that are components of a skill: movements are the building blocks of a skill, skill can be perfoemed by variety of movements. Why differentiate between skill, movement, etc? there is a taxonomy or hierarchy. Movement- characterics that vary withing and between people: process measures.
