ENS 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Motor Skill, Motor Learning, Implicit Learning
17 Apr 2020
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Lecture 16 - motor control and learning: conditions of practice. 9 variables that influence learning and performance. Time is a key constraint in situations where individuals are asked to learn a motor skill. Performance: short-term improvements we see during a particular session/day of practice. Learning: improvements we can observe the next day, during the actual game, or after rehabilitation. The variables that influence learning and performance: verbal information, focus of attention, motivation, observation. Providing information about the task before, during, or after physically practicing it. Mechanical principles are part of instruction in sport skills (propulsion in swimming, ball spin and geometry in billiards) Performance can also be degraded when learners are informed about how to perform a task. Example, wulf and weigelt, 1997 ski-simulator study. Results: performance of the informed group was imparied when compared with the other group. Being oblivious to perceptual regularities of the task. Example, green and flowers (1991) ball catching experiment.
