KNPE 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motor Learning, Motor Skill, Implicit Learning
11 Mar 2018
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Lecture 2: introduction to motor learning and performance. Skill performance is critical to existence and almost uniquely human. Born with ability to produce skills with some maturation needed. Skills: ability to bring about some end result with maximum certainty and minimum outlay of energy or of time and energy. Skill optimizes and balances skill aspects in different settings. Skilled performance is efficient and minimizes physical and mental energy to achieve goal. Skilled performance minimizes time cost of achieving a goal. Critical elements of skill development: perceiving relevant environmental features, deciding what to do and when and where to do it to achieve the goal, producing organized muscular activity to generate movements that achieve the goal. Perceptual events lead to decisions that determine success. Complex combo of mental and motor processes. Quality of movement generated from decision determines skill. Locomotion component: move body to point where skill occurs. Performer can evaluate environmental demands and prepare motor actions in advance.
