APA 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cross Country Running, Usain Bolt, Motor Control
8 Nov 2018
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Try to understand how brain runs our body. Interested in movements that are on the complex end of the continuum. How to people learn to swim faster. How to shoot guns in a changing environment. Example: pointing a laser pointer (voluntary movement to achieve a goal) Motor control is studying how a computer learns. The guy who got the most basketball free throws in the nba shot underhand, but the proper technique to do basketball free throw. Skill was the same but the movements involved had to be adapted to fit the environment. Cross country runner: gross, continuous, body transport, in motion, non intertrial. These skills are different, but we can find what they have in common to see how they are similar. Usain bolt sprinting is a closed motor skill (environment is unchanging) Running ahead (100m dash) and runner back (football) is different, football has changing environments. Swimming (open water) waves from the people around us changes.
