01:377:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Motor Learning, Motor Skill
29 Dec 2017
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Accurately describes a large class of observations. Make definite predictions about results of future observations. Motor learning and control theories focus on: Providing explanations about why people perform skills as they do. How does a theory have relevance to professional practice. Provides the why basis for what practitioners do. Describes and explains how the nervous system produces coordinated movement during motor skill performance in a variety of environments. Patterning of body and limb motions relative to the patterning of environmental objects and events. Degrees of freedom (df)= number of independent elements in a system and the ways each element can act. Degrees of freedom problem= how to control the df to make a complex system act in a specific way. E. g. the control of a helicopter"s flight (described in the textbook) Degree of freedom problem for the control of movement: Models of basic descriptions to show different ways the cns and pns initiate and control action.
