ABSTRACT

Why should anyone be interested in studying motor skills? This book is based on the contrary belief that the determinants of motor skill and the conjoint problems of how movements are coordinated and controlled are fundamentally important to anyone concerned with understanding human behavior. This includes psychologists, but applies even more especially to other disciplines-such as physical education and kinesiology-for which the subject of movement is particularly germane. In fact, this book is written primarily for undergraduates in kinesiology and physical education as well as psychology, and it may also be of interest to students in areas such as physical therapy, engineering and computer science.

part 1|58 pages

Perspectives and Issues in Motor Behavior

chapter 2|38 pages

Concepts and Issues in Human Motor Behavior

Coming to Grips with the Jargon

part 2|81 pages

Information Processing, Motor Learning and Memory

part 3|46 pages

From Component Analysis to Motor Programs

chapter 7|26 pages

Learning and Control of Coordinated Motor Patterns

The Programming Perspective

part 4|49 pages

Generalized Motor Programs and Schemas for Movement

chapter 8|29 pages

More on Motor Programs

chapter 9|17 pages

The Schema Concept

part 5|45 pages

Degrees of Freedom, Coordinative Structures and Tuning

chapter 10|14 pages

The Bernstein Perspective

I. The Problems of Degrees of Freedom and Context-Conditioned Variability

chapter 11|18 pages

The Bernstein Perspective

II. The Concept of Muscle Linkage or Coordinative Structure

chapter 12|11 pages

The Bernstein Perspective

III. Tuning of Coordinative Structures with Special Reference to Perception

chapter |5 pages

Epilogue

Two Strategies for Investigating Action