TY - BOOK AU - Schmidt,Richard A. AU - Lee,Timothy Donald TI - Motor learning and performance: from principles to application SN - 1450443613 AV - BF295 .S248 2014 U1 - 152.334 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Champaign, IL PB - Human Kinetics KW - Motor learning KW - Learning KW - Movement, Psychology of KW - Motor Activity KW - Kinesthesis KW - Psychomotor Performance N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction to Motor Learning and Performance: How Skills Are Studied -- Part I. Principles of Human Skilled Performance -- 2. Processing Information and Making Decisions: The Mental Side of Human Performance -- 3. Attention and Performance: Limitations on Information Processing -- 4. Sensory Contributions to Skilled Performance: Feedback Processing in Motor Control -- 5. Motor Programs: Motor Control of Brief Actions -- 6. Principles of Speed, Accuracy, and Coordination: Controlling and Timing Movements -- 7. Individual Differences: How People Differ in Their Performance Capabilities -- Part II. Principles of Skill Learning -- 8. Introduction to Motor Learning: Concepts and Methods in Research and Application -- 9. Skill Acquisition, Retention, and Transfer: How Expertise is Gained -- 10. Organizing and Scheduling Practice: How the Structure of Practice Influences Learning -- 11. Augmented Feedback: How Providing Extra Information Influences Learning -- --; 1; Introduction to Motor Learning and Performance: How Skills Are Studied --; Why Study Motor Skills? --; The Science of Motor Learning and Performance --; Focus on Research 1.1: Franklin M. Henry, Father of Motor Behavior Research --; Defining Skills --; Components of Skills --; Classifying Skills --; Focus on Research 1.2: Error Scores in Discrete Tasks --; Focus on Research 1.3: Error Scores in Continuous Tasks --; Understanding Performance and Learning --; Summary --; Learning Aids -- --; Part I; Principles of Human Skilled Performance -- --; 2; Processing Information and Making Decisions: The Mental Side of Human Performance --; The Information-Processing Approach --; Reaction Time and Decision Making --; Focus on Research 2.1: Donders' Stages of Processing --; Focus on Research 2.2: Hick's Law --; Focus on Application 2.1: Light Switches --; Focus on Application 2.2: Strategies for Anticipating --; Focus on Research 2.3: Assessing Anticipation Skills --; Memory Systems --; Summary --; Learning Aids -- --; 3; Attention and Performance: Limitations on Information Processing --; Focus on Application 3.1: William James on Attention --; What Is Attention? --; Limitations in Stimulus Identification --; Limitations in Response Selection --; Focus on Research 3.1: Distracted-Driving Research --; Limitations in Movement Programming --; Focus on Research 3.2: The Double-Stimulation Paradigm --; Decision Making Under Stress --; Focus on Application 3.2: Automotive Panic --; Summary --; Learning Aids -- --; 4; Sensory Contributions to Skilled Performance: Feedback Processing in Motor Control --; Sources of Sensory Information --; Processing Sensory Information --; Focus on Application 4.1: Error Correction in Batting --; Principles of Visual Control --; Focus on Research 4.1: "Blindsight" Reveals Dorsal and Ventral Stream Processing --; Focus on Research 4.2: Gaze Control --; Focus on Application 4.2: Visibility in Nighttime Car-Truck Accidents --; Audition and Motor Control --; Focus on Application 4.3: When Vision Degrades Performance --; Summary --; Learning Aids -- --; 5; Motor Programs: Motor Control of Brief Actions --; Motor Program Theory --; Evidence for Motor Programs --; Focus on Research 5.1: The Henry-Rogers Experiment --; Focus on Application 5.1: Checked Swings in Baseball --; Focus on Research 5.2: Initiating a Motor Program --; Motor Programs and the Conceptual Model --; Problems in Motor-Program Theory: Novelty and Storage Problems --; Generalized Motor-Program Theory --; Focus on Research 5.3: Invariances and Parameters --; Focus on Research 5.4: Relative Timing in Locomotion --; Focus on Application 5.2: Relative-Timing Fingerprints --; Focus on Application 5.3: The Stereo-System Analogy --; Summary --; Learning Aids -- --; 6; Principles of Speed, Accuracy, and Coordination: Controlling and Timing Movements --; Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs --; Focus on Research 6.1: Fitts Tasks --; Focus on Application 6.1: Fitts' Law in Everyday Actions --; Sources of Error in Rapid Movements --; Exceptions to the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off --; Analyzing a Rapid Movement: Baseball Batting --; Accuracy in Coordinated Actions --; Focus on Application 6.2: Coordination in Golf Putting --; Focus on Research 6.2: Coordination as a Self-Organization Process --; Summary --; Learning Aids -- --; 7; Individual Differences: How People Differ in Their Performance Capabilities --; The Study of Individual Differences --; Abilities versus Skills --; Is There a General Motor Ability? --; Focus on Application 7.1: The Babe (Mildred "Babe" Zaharias) --; Focus on Research 7.1: Correlation: The Statistic of Individual Differences --; Abilities and the Production of Skills --; Prediction and Selection Based on Ability --; Focus on Application 7.2: Moneyball --; Focus on Research 7.2: The Relative-Age Effect --; Summary --; Learning Aids -- --; Part II; Principles of Skill Learning -- --; 8; Introduction to Motor Learning: Concepts and Methods in Research and Application --; Motor Learning Defined --; How is Motor Learning Measured? --; Focus on Research 8.1: Learning Curves: Facts or Artifacts? --; Distinguishing Learning from Performance --; Focus on Application 8.1: Self-Assessments of Learning --; Transfer of Learning --; Summary --; Learning Aids -- --; 9; Skill Acquisition, Retention, and Transfer: How Expertise is Gained --; Skill Acquisition --; Focus on Application 9.1: Principles of Golf Practice --; Focus on Research 9.1: Learning Never Ends --; Focus on Application 9.2: Fitts and Bernstein Learn to Play Ice Hockey --; Skill Retention --; Skill Transfer --; Focus on Application 9.3: Teaching for Transfer of Learning --; Focus on Research 9.2: Game Systems for Virtual Training --; Summary --; Learning Aids -- --; 10; Organizing and Scheduling Practice: How the Structure of Practice Influences Learning --; Off-Task Practice Considerations --; Focus on Application 10.1: Mental Practice in Stroke Rehabilitation --; Organizing Practice and Rest --; Variable Versus Constant Practice --; Focus on Research 10.1: Especial Skills: An Exception to Variable Practice? --; Blocked Versus Random Practice --; Summary --; Learning Aids -- --; 11; Augmented Feedback: How Providing Extra Information Influences Learning --; Feedback Classifications --; Functions of Augmented Feedback --; Focus on Research 11.1: Revising Ideas About How Feedback Works --; How Much Feedback Should Be Given? --; Focus on Research 11.2: Augmented Feedback From Video Replays --; When to Give Feedback --; Focus on Application 11.1: Physical Guidance in Stroke Rehabilitation --; Focus on Application 11.2: Physical Guidance in Learning to Swim --; Summary --; Learning Aids ER -