Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioral Emphasis

by Schmidt, Richard A.; Lee, Timothy Donald, Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780880114844
• ISBN10: 0880114843
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Human Kinetics

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Credits	xi
Part 1 Introduction to Motor Behavior	1	(92)
Chapter 1 Evolution of a Field of Study	3	(12)
Understanding Movement	4	(2)
Origins of the Field	6	(8)
Summary	14	(1)
Chapter 2 Methodology for Studying Motor Performance	15	(26)
Classification of Behavior	16	(2)
Basic Considerations in Measurement	18	(2)
Measuring Motor Behavior	20	(18)
Empirical Equations	38	(2)
Summary	40	(1)
Chapter 3 Human Information Processing	41	(20)
The Information-Processing Model	42	(1)
Three Stages of Information Processing	42	(13)
Memory	55	(3)
Summary	58	(3)
Chapter 4 Attention and Performance	61	(32)
Types of Attention	62	(2)
Theories of Attention	64	(3)
Attention and Patterns of Interference Among Tasks	67	(8)
Attention and Interference During Movement	75	(4)
Anticipation	79	(7)
Attention, Arousal, and Anxiety	86	(5)
Summary	91	(2)
Part 2 Motor Control	93	(168)
Chapter 5 Sensory Contributions to Motor Control	95	(36)
Vision	96	(14)
Audition	110	(1)
Proprioceptors	110	(4)
Proprioception and Motor Control	114	(12)
Feedforward Influences on Motor Control	126	(2)
Summary	128	(3)
Chapter 6 Central Contributions to Motor Control	131	(40)
Open-Loop Processes	132	(4)
Central Control Mechanisms	136	(5)
Central Control of Rapid Movements	141	(7)
Motor Program Issues	148	(9)
Generalized Motor Programs	157	(11)
Summary	168	(3)
Chapter 7 Principles of Simple Movement	171	(34)
Fitts' Law: The Logarithmic Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off	172	(5)
The Linear Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off	177	(3)
The Temporal Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off	180	(3)
Central Contributions to the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off	183	(17)
Correction Models of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off	200	(3)
Summary	203	(2)
Chapter 8 Coordination	205	(22)
Discrete Tasks	206	(9)
Continuous Tasks	215	(10)
Summary	225	(2)
Chapter 9 Individual Differences and Capabilities	227	(34)
Experimental Versus Differential Approaches	228	(2)
Correlational Methods	230	(5)
Abilities	235	(10)
Taxonomies	245	(3)
Prediction	248	(5)
Individual-Difference Variables	253	(5)
Summary	258	(3)
Part 3 Motor Learning	261	(148)
Chapter 10 Motor Learning Concepts and Research Methods	263	(22)
Motor Learning Defined	264	(2)
Measuring Motor Learning	266	(5)
Designing Experiments on Learning	271	(6)
Some Alternative Methods for Measuring Learning	277	(4)
Issues About the "Amount" of Learning	281	(2)
Importance of Understanding Learning and Performance Variables	283	(1)
Summary	284	(1)
Chapter 11 Conditions of Practice	285	(38)
The Most Important Condition: Amount of Practice	286	(1)
Prepractice Considerations	286	(6)
Distribution of Practice	292	(6)
Variability of Practice	298	(4)
Contextual Interference: Blocked Versus Random Practice	302	(9)
Mental Practice	311	(2)
Part Versus Whole Practice	313	(3)
Guidance	316	(2)
Principles of Practice Specificity	318	(3)
Summary	321	(2)
Chapter 12 Augmented Feedback	323	(34)
Classifications and Definitions	324	(2)
Research on Augmented Feedback	326	(4)
Evaluating the Effects of Augmented Feedback	330	(2)
Knowledge of Performance	332	(4)
Knowledge of Results	336	(15)
Theoretical Issues: How Does Augmented Feedback "Work"?	351	(3)
Summary	354	(3)
Chapter 13 The Learning Process	357	(28)
Characteristics of the Learning Process	358	(11)
Two Theories of Motor Learning	369	(5)
Differing Theoretical Perspectives of Motor Learning	374	(9)
Summary	383	(2)
Chapter 14 Retention and Transfer	385	(24)
Fundamental Distinctions and Definitions	386	(1)
Measuring Retention and Transfer	387	(4)
Retention and Motor Memory	391	(3)
Retention Loss	394	(8)
Transfer of Learning	402	(6)
Summary	408	(1)
Appendix	409	(2)
Glossary	411	(12)
References	423	(48)
Author Index	471	(14)
Subject Index	485	(10)
About the Authors	495