01:377:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Motor Learning, Motor Skill, Triangle Center
17 Oct 2018
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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 they do. Provides the why basis for what practitioners do. You can modify environment to help the person learn the skill. You need to know everything about the skill and know every component. 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 the environmental objects and events. You are constrained to act a specific way. Degrees of freedom: 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. Nervous system solves the degrees of freedom problem. After a lot of practice you can do the skill.
