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Perception, Cognition, and Decision Training

Information from Patla and Vickers who recorded the gaze of participants as they approached and stepped over obstacles of varying height.

Vision and Goal-Directed Movement eBook

In the last few decades, a modest number of empirical investigations have been designed to identify factors influencing the use of visual information as a function of practice.

Fundamentals of Motor Behavior

Over the years, many different theories have been used to explain how people learn.

Fundamentals of Motor Behavior eBook

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

Here we will discuss information processing as it relates to human motor behavior �specifically how information is processed for the specific purpose of producing skilled movement.

Motor Control and Learning-5th Edition

Here, the author presents some of the evidence about the retention and retention loss of motor skills.

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?

Advanced Analysis of Motor Development

Here we focus on the development of striking, throwing, and kicking. Most developmental studies on ballistic projectile skills have been based in developmental sequence theory, although a few studies are beginning to address issues from a dynamic systems perspective.

Motor Learning and Performance 5th Edition With Web Study Guide

One useful addition to the collection of activities in a practice session is to ask the learner to rehearse skills to be learned mentally, without performing actual, overt physical practice.

Life Span Motor Development 6th Edition eBook With Web Study Guide

Postural control and balance are perfect examples of perception and action as an ecosystem. To control our posture in order to sit, stand, or assume any desired position, we must continually change our motor response patterns according to the perceptual information that specifies the environment and our bodies’ orientation in it.

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.