KNPE 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Motor Learning, Neuroplasticity, Skeletal Muscle

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KNPE 261
• Professor: Nicholas Held

Document Summary

Skill: response orientation, speed, simple rt, finger dexterity, manual dexterity, and response integration. Elite athletes score higher than average people in many motor abilities. Individual diff in ability contributes to individual diff in performance. Improved performance is an indication that learning may have occurred. Despite some diff in motor ability, elite athletes had to learn tricks of their trade. Motor learning is a set of processes associated with practice and produces relatively permanent gains in capability for skilled performance. Set of processes associated with practice/experience causing relatively permanent gains in capability for skill performance: lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g is asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e (cid:271)ut pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)e does(cid:374)"t guara(cid:374)tee lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, despite having access to best coaches and practice facilities, in the world charles. Experiment: target rotates around circular path with speed, subject tries to keep mouse cursor on target, compute % time on target, compare time on target across sequential trials. Task used in ml&c research for more than 50 years.