Designed for introductory students, this text provides the reader with a solid research base and defines difficult material by identifying concepts and demonstrating applications for each of those concepts. Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications also includes references for all relevant material to encourage students to examine the research for themselves.
... 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).
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.
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Whether readers plan to work in physical education, kinesiology, exercise science, coaching, athletic training, physical therapy, or dance, this text defines current thinking and trends, blending practical information with supporting ...
Motor Learning: Concepts and Applications
This text offers a comprehensive and contemporary overview of the major areas of study in motor learning and control using several different perspectives applied to scholarly study and research in the field.
Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications
Advances in Motor Learning and Control surveys the latest, most important advances in the field, surpassing the confines of debate between proponents of the information processing and dynamical systems.
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.