Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications,9781259823992

Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications

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Edition: 11th
ISBN13: 9781259823992
ISBN10: 1259823997
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2016-07-08
Publisher(s): MCGRAW HILL
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Table of Contents

Unit I: Introduction to Motor Skills and Abilities

1. The Classification of Motor Skills

2. The Measurement of Motor Performance

3. Motor Abilities

Unit II: Introduction to Motor Control

4. Neuromotor Basis for Motor Control

5. Motor Control Theories

6. Sensory Components of Motor Control

7. Performance and Motor Control Characteristics of Functional Skills

8. Action Preparation

Unit III: Attention and Memory

9. Attention as a Limited Capacity Resource

10. Memory Components, Forgetting, and Strategies

Unit IV: Introduction to Motor Skill Learning

11. Defining and Assessing Learning

12. The Stages of Learning

13. Transfer of Learning

Unit V: Instruction and Augmented Feedback

14. Demonstration and Verbal Instructions

15. Augmented Feedback

Unit VI: Practive Conditions

16. Practice Variability and Specificity

17. The Amount and Distribution of Practice

18. Whole and Part Practice

19. Mental Practice

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