KNES 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Motor Skill, Motor Control, Motor Coordination
8 Sep 2016
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Introduction to motor control, motor skills and motor abilities. Lecture face to face 2 session 3. Review the definitions of motor control, coordination, movements, motor skills, skillfulness, and motor ability. Review the distinction between motor skills and motor abilities. Cognitive-motor aspects of fine motor coordination under various task constraints. Motor control: how our neuromuscular system functions to activate and coordinate the muscles and limbs involved in the performance of a motor skill. Movements: specific patterns of motion among joint and body segments used to accomplish action goals: movement is really created at the joint, we see the result in the body, goal directed movement. Skill: action or task that has a specific goal to achieve. Motor skill: a skill that requires voluntary limb movement to achieve its goal. Abilities: stable, generally inherited traits, relatively few in number, underlie performance of many skills.
