KINESIOL 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KINESIOL 1E03
• Professor: Jim Burkitt

Document Summary

Proposes the inherent existence of stable and unstable movement patterns: control emerges as a result of interactions between the component parts of the body and the environment. Doesn"t believe in higher order information processing: suggests that movement occurs due to the destabilization of the system. Relies heavily on the concept that changes in motor performance are non-linear: because control parameters don"t affect all stable states in the same way. An intrinsic property of the system is that it will always seek the greatest level of stability. When the system is forced to move from stable to unstable patterns (movement states: this instability will result in increased movement variability. A stable state that tends to draw other states towards it. A single point in a repeating cycle. The difference in phase for one effector, relative to another effector, at any given time. The variability around the mean relative phase across 1 cycle.