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Author Magill, Richard A

Title Motor Learning and Control : Concepts and Applications
Edition 11th ed
Published NY : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (833 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyrights; Contents; Preface; Dedication; UNIT ONE Introduction to Motor Skills and Abilities; 1 The Classification of Motor Skills; Application; Discussion; Skills, Actions, Movements, and Neuromotor Processes; One-Dimension Classification Systems; Gentile's Two-Dimensions Taxonomy; 2 The Measurement of Motor Performance; Application; Discussion; Reaction Time; Error Measures; Kinematic Measures; Kinetics; Emg; Brain Activity Measures; Measuring Coordination; 3 Motor Abilities; Application; Discussion; Ability and Motor Ability; UNIT TWO Introduction to Motor Control
4 Neuromotor Basis for Motor ControlApplication; Discussion; The Neuron; The Central Nervous System; The Neural Control of Voluntary Movement; 5 Motor Control Theories; Application; Discussion; Theory and Professional Practice; Motor Control Theory; Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Control Systems; Two Theories of Motor Control; The Present State of the Control Theory Issue; 6 Sensory Components of Motor Control; Application; Discussion; Touch and Motor Control; Proprioception and Motor Control; Vision and Motor Control; Investigating the Role of Vision in Motor Control
The Role of Vision in Motor Control7 Performance and Motor Control Characteristics of Functional Skills; Application; Discussion; Speed-Accuracy Skills; Prehension; Handwriting; Bimanual Coordination Skills; Catching a Moving Object; Striking a Moving Object; Locomotion; 8 Action Preparation; Application; Discussion; Action Preparation Requires Time; Task and Situation Characteristics Influencing Preparation; Performer Characteristics Influencing Preparation; What Occurs During Preparation?; UNIT THREE Attention and Memory; 9 Attention as a Limited Capacity Resource; Application; Discussion
Attention and Multiple-Task PerformanceThe Dual-Task Procedure for Assessing Attention Demands; Focusing Attention; Attention and Automaticity; Visual Selective Attention; Visual Search and Motor Skill Performance; Training Visual Search Strategies; 10 Memory Components, Forgetting, and Strategies; Application; Discussion; Memory Structure; Working Memory; Long-Term Memory; Remembering and Forgetting; Assessing Remembering and Forgetting; The Causes of Forgetting; Movement Characteristics Related to Memory Performance; Strategies That Enhance Memory Performance; Practice-Test Context Effects
UNIT FOUR Introduction to Motor Skill Learning11 Defining and Assessing Learning; Application; Discussion; Performance Distinguished From Learning; General Performance Characteristics of Skill Learning; Learning Assessment Techniques; Practice Performance May Misrepresent Learning; 12 The Stages of Learning; Application; Discussion; The Fitts and Posner Three-Stage Model; Gentile's Two-Stage Model; Bernstein's Description of the Learning Process; Performer and Performance Changes Across the Stages of Learning; A Performer Characteristic that Does not Change Across the Stages of Learning
Notes Expertise
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Motor learning -- Textbooks
Motor ability.
Learning.
Teaching.
Motor Skills
Learning
Physical Education and Training
Teaching
teaching.
Teaching
Motor ability
Learning
Motor learning
Genre/Form Textbooks
Form Electronic book
Author Anderson, David I
ISBN 9781259846687
1259846687