PEDS207 Chapter Notes -Perceptual Learning, Depth Perception, Proprioception

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education and Sport
• Course: PEDS207
• Professor: Jody Virr

Document Summary

Role of action in perception: developmentalists suspect that movement is important to perceptual development. Is necessary for the coupling, or linking, or perception and movement. Identified perception as the precursor of movement and cognition: speculated that learning disabilities could be remediated through perceptual- motor programs. Little evidence exists that perceptual-motor programs improved classroom skills. Contemporary views: perceptual motor activities are important, motor and cognitive development are intertwined, ecological views newborns perceive the environment and many of its properties. Infants then receive more info from environment to guide another movement: there"s a hypothesis that there is a perception-action loop, the period after physical activity had an increased ability to learn. Recent research: perception develops ahead of movement skills, movement skills are acquired with guidance from perceptual information, new actions make new information (perceptions) available, exercise stimulates brain activity that facilitates learning and memory.