KPE160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motor Learning, Motor Skill, Motor Control
9 Mar 2019
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Purpose of studying motor performance, learning, and development: movement is one of the fundamental aspects of our lives that determines success, coaching athletes and students, training people on acts of daily living. Physical and occupational therapy: human factors/ergonomics, appreciation. Understanding movement: motor behaviour components motor control motor development, motor learning. Kpe160: motor control < 1 second to minutes, motor learning days, months, years, motor development lifetime. Interconnectedness of sub-disciplines: treat them relatively independently, but all influence each other. Approaches to understanding action: cognitive of reductionist approach, function can be derived from understanding the characteristics of the elements. Sensory/memory/motor systems neural networks neurons: complex or dynamical system approach, whole is equal to the sum of parts, function cannot be derived from understanding the characteristics of the elements. The system must be studied as a whole: whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
