The authors offer a comprehensive introduction to motor behaviour, aimed at students & rehabilitation professionals.
Effect of task and instruction on patterns of muscle activation: Wachholder and beyond. Motor Control, 5,307-336. Sternberg, S. (1969). The discovery of processing stages: Extensions of Donders' method. In W.G. Koster ...
... new skills or those that are highly technical are taught and practiced at the beginning of the session, while the learner is still fresh; conditioning is then done toward the end of practice (Jones, Wells, Peters, & Johnson, 1993).
This book is the first to view the effects of development, aging, and practice on the control of human voluntary movement from a contemporary context.
Tiffin, J., & Rogers, H.B. (1943). The selection and training of inspectors. ... In R. Shaw & J. Bransford (Eds.), Perceiving, acting, and knowing (pp. 211–265). ... Urbin, M.A., Stodden, D., Boros, R., & Shannon, D. (2012).
In this volume authors from a variety of backgrounds and theoretical perspectives review their research with particular emphasis on the methods and paradigms employed, and the future direction of their work.
This is important foundational reading for any student taking classes in motor control, learning or behavior or skill acquisition, or a clear and concise reference for any practicing sports coach, physical education teacher or ...
This text offers a comprehensive survey of neurophysiological, behavioural and biomechanical aspects of motor function.
Both reviews concluded that distributed practice leads to better practice performance than massed practice (Donovan & Radosevich, 1999; Lee & Genovese, 1988). This makes sense because distributed practice allows some rest, ...
Information Processing in Motor Control and Learning provides the theoretical ideas and experimental findings in the field of motor behavior research. The text presents a balanced combination of theory and empirical data.
In every edition of this book, the overall approach has been the presentation of motor learning and control "concepts" to identify the common theme of each chapter.