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Infant Motor Development

According to Jean Piaget, knowledge is acquired through the progression of four distinct stages.

Perception, Cognition, and Decision Training

The decision-training model has three steps and includes seven cognitive skills, seven cognitive triggers, and seven decision-training tools.

Vision and Goal-Directed Movement

Elliott and Khan contend that there are two types of visual regulation associated with goal-directed movement.

Fundamentals of Motor Behavior

The decision to use any given practice schedule should be based on the skill level of the learner, the demands of the task, and the eventual performance setting.

Motor Control and Learning-5th Edition

One of the most frequently used and advocated off-task methods to promote learning is mental practice, in which the performance of a task is mentally rehearsed, but is this as effective as physical practice?

The Athlete's Clock

The concept of pacing is rooted in the idea that athletes make cognitive, purposeful decisions regarding velocity based on previous experience and sensory input.

Perceptual-Motor Activities for Children With Web Resource

Educators who want to help children develop to their full potential must educate the whole child by addressing physical, mental, and emotional needs. Many programs at elementary schools focus on academic and emotional development, but how many address children�s physical development?

Perceptual-Motor Activities for Children eBook With Web Resource

Do grapevine (crossover) steps from cone to cone. Along the way, touch each cone and say the letter shown on the card for that cone.

Advanced Analysis of Motor Development

If early developing motor differences exist, then assessment of these deficits may aid in identifying children at risk for ASD at a younger age than is currently possible.

Motor Learning and Performance 5th Edition With Web Study Guide

In many, if not most, real-world settings, the learner�s goal is to acquire more than a single skill or task in a limited practice period, sometimes even in a single practice period.

Articles and Links

	Cutting wood and missing putts How are constant error, variable error, and absolute error useful for understanding motor control?
	Explanation of the three-step decision training model The decision-training model has three steps and includes seven cognitive skills, seven cognitive triggers, and seven decision-training tools.
	Feedback plays many roles in movement production and control Learn more about various functions of feedback in movement control, such as how we can conceptualize these functions as acting before a movement, during a movement, and after a movement.