Kinesiology 1080A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Motor Imagery, Mirror Box, Apraxia

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Plasticity: ability to learn and acquire new skills. Phrenology: field examining brain areas that express courage, love, hope; subjective. Extrafusal muscle fibres: power producing muscle fibre, causes muscles to contract. Intrafusal muscle fibres: proprioceptive sense, detects stretch in muscles, tells cns where limbs are located. Historical development of motor learning and control mother disciplines : psychology shifren. Interest: how we convert information from short term memory (stm) to long term memory (ltm) Brain is a computer for information processing. Memory is content dividing into motor or cognitive abilities. Serial & discrete information: cerebellum holds on piece of information and processes it entirely before moving on to other information. Semantic information: factual knowledge or information: engineering melton & fitts. Melton: pilots are selected based on individual abilities. Fitts*: plane accidents are due to human/machine interference: forefather of ergonomics. Incompatible spatial mapping: lack of compatibility between a stimulus and a response: fitts re-engineered the cockpit of a plane; accidents declined 80%