KNES 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Spinal Cord, Cerebellum, Muscle Contraction
10 Oct 2016
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Intro to the neurophysiological perspective of motor control. How did we get here: motor skills vs. abilities, performance assessment, motor learning, effects of practice and feedback. Where are we going: how are we able to control, coordinate and learn motor skills, emphasis on the underlying processes/mechanisms. Neurophysiological perspective: the subsystems through which the nervous system (central and peripheral) controls and coordinates the musculoskeletal system. How the nervous system can control/coordinate the muscular system. Focuses on nuts/bolts of the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems. Functional perspective: the structures and processes through which we control body movements (i. e. , integration and regulation) theoretically based. Rather than focusing on subsystems, focuses on underlying theoretical processes. There are no (cid:494)simple(cid:495) movements muscular and skeletal systems. Every movement involves a complex interaction among the nervous, Spatial/temporal localization of object: sensory input (predominantly visual) Positioning of body/hands in the appropriate location: knowledge of current position. Need to have knowledge of starting position.
