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Motor control and learning : a behavioral emphasis / Richard A. Schmidt.

By: Schmidt, Richard A, 1941-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Champaign, ILL : Human Kinetics Publishers, [1982]Copyright date: ©1982Description: xxi, 689 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0931250218 (hardback).Subject(s): Movement, Psychology of | Motor learningDDC classification: 152.3
Contents:
Section I: Introduction: Description and origins of a field of study -- Scientific methods and motor control -- Section II: Motor behaviour and control: Methodology in studying motor behavior -- Information processing and memory systems -- Attention and performance -- Modes of motor control I: control systems and closed-loop processes -- Modes of motor control II: Open-loop processes and an integration -- Motor programs -- Laws of simple movement -- Individual differences and capabilites -- Section III: Motor learning and memory: Motor learning: fundamental concepts and methodology -- Conditions of practice -- Feedback and knowledge of results -- The processes of learning -- Motor memory.
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Bibliography: (pages 637-666) and indexes.

Section I: Introduction: Description and origins of a field of study -- Scientific methods and motor control -- Section II: Motor behaviour and control: Methodology in studying motor behavior -- Information processing and memory systems -- Attention and performance -- Modes of motor control I: control systems and closed-loop processes -- Modes of motor control II: Open-loop processes and an integration -- Motor programs -- Laws of simple movement -- Individual differences and capabilites -- Section III: Motor learning and memory: Motor learning: fundamental concepts and methodology -- Conditions of practice -- Feedback and knowledge of results -- The processes of learning -- Motor memory.

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  • Part I Introduction to Motor Behavior
  • Chapter 1 Evolution of a Field of Study
  • Understanding Movement
  • Origins of the Field
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2 Methodology for Studying Motor Performance
  • Classification of Behavior
  • Basic Considerations in Measurement
  • Measuring Motor Behavior
  • Measuring and Evaluating Relationships
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3 Human Information Processing
  • The Information
  • Processing Model
  • Three Stages of Information Processing
  • Anticipation
  • Signal Detection Theory
  • Memory
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4 Attention and Performance
  • Types of Attention
  • Theories of Attention
  • Attention and Patterns of Interference Among Tasks
  • Attention and Interference During Movement
  • Cell Phones, Attention and Driving
  • Directed Attention in Action
  • Attention, Arousal, and Anxiety
  • Summary
  • Part II Motor Control
  • Chapter 5 Sensory Contributions to Motor Control
  • Vision
  • Audition
  • Proprioceptors
  • Proprioception and Motor Control
  • Feedforward Influences on Motor Control
  • Summary
  • Chapter 6 Central Contributions to Motor Control
  • Open-Loop Processes
  • Central Control Mechanisms
  • Central Control of Rapid Movements
  • Motor Program Issues
  • Generalized Motor Programs
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7 Principles of Speed and Accuracy
  • Fitts' Law: The Logarithmic Speed
  • Accuracy Trade-Off
  • The Linear Speed
  • Accuracy Trade-Off
  • The Temporal Speed
  • Accuracy Trade-Off
  • Central Contributions to the Speed
  • Accuracy Trade-Off
  • Correction Models of the Speed
  • Accuracy Trade-Off
  • Summary
  • Chapter 8 Coordination
  • Discrete Tasks
  • Continuous Tasks
  • Summary
  • Chapter 9 Individual Differences and Capabilities
  • Experimental Versus Differential Approaches
  • Abilities
  • Taxonomies
  • Prediction
  • Individual
  • Difference Variables
  • Summary
  • Part III Motor Learning
  • Chapter 10 Motor Learning Concepts and Research Methods
  • Motor Learning Defined
  • Measuring Motor Learning
  • Designing Experiments on Learning
  • Some Alternative Methods for Measuring Learning
  • Issues About the "Amount" of Learning
  • Importance of Understanding Learning and Performance Variables
  • Summary
  • Chapter 11 Conditions of Practice
  • The Power Law of Practice
  • Prepractice Considerations
  • Distribution of Practice
  • Variability of Practice
  • Scheduling Practice with Several Different Tasks
  • Mental Practice
  • Part Versus Whole Practice
  • Guidance
  • Principles of Practice Specificity
  • Summary
  • Chapter 12 Augmented Feedback
  • Classifications and Definitions
  • Research on Augmented Feedback
  • Evaluating the Effects of Augmented Feedback
  • Knowledge of Performance
  • Knowledge of Results
  • Theoretical Issues: How Does Augmented Feedback "Work"?
  • Summary
  • Chapter 13 The Learning Process
  • Characteristics of the Learning Process
  • Two Theories of Motor Learning
  • Differing Theoretical Perspectives of Motor Learning
  • Summary
  • Chapter 14 Retention and Transfer
  • Fundamental Distinctions and Definitions
  • Measuring Retention and Transfer
  • Retention and Motor Memory
  • Retention Loss
  • Transfer of Learning
  • Summary