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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.

Attention and Motor Skill Learning

Insights into the various facets of expertise of concert pianists, as well as the role their attentional focus plays in delivering a “perfect” performance.

Attention and Motor Skill Learning

Even though motor skills vary, the learning process that individuals go through when acquiring those skills is similar.

Vision and Goal-Directed Movement

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

Vision and Goal-Directed Movement eBook

One of the classic controversies in motor control is the extent to which discrete goal-directed movements unfold as planned or are modified based on response-produced feedback or changing environmental demands.

Fundamentals of Motor Behavior

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

Fundamentals of Motor Behavior

When we are compelled to act quickly, we can sometimes emphasize speed over accuracy and actually end up missing the goal of the task entirely.

Motor Learning and Development eBook

Researchers and practitioners, as well as social critics, have addressed why the timely and appropriate acquisition of fundamental movement skills is crucial to the development of young children.

Perceptual-Motor Activities for Children 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.

Biomechanics of Skeletal Muscles eBook

The “intrasarcomere” mechanisms, such as the actin–myosin interaction, are mentioned only in passing. It is assumed that the readers are familiar with these mechanisms from courses in muscle physiology.

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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.

Cutting wood and missing putts

How are constant error, variable error, and absolute error useful for understanding motor control?