Motor Control in Everyday Actions

Motor Control in Everyday Actions

Lee, Timothy D.

Human Kinetics Publishers

05/2011

248

Dura

Inglês

9780736083935

15 a 20 dias

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Part I. Stories About Perception and Action Gone Wrong

Chapter 1. Perceptual Errors

The Magnetic Hill

How do visual illusions distort perception and influence action?

The Farmers' Market

What are the roles of motor error and hypervigilance in unintended acceleration accidents?

The Grocery Store

How do population stereotypes shape our interactions with manufactured environments?

Push or Pull?

How do product designs influence people to perform specific actions?

Chapter 2. Decision Errors

Friendly Fire

What role did decision errors play in the death of Patrick Tillman?

Method to His Bratness

Did John McEnroe's verbal abuse of line judges influence their decisions?

Choking Under Pressure

What changes in information processing cause athletes such as Jean Van de Velde to fail under pressure?

Turn Right at the Next Gorilla

What is inattention blindness, and what role does it play in common traffic accidents?

Chapter 3. Action Errors

The Calculator

How can product designs accommodate Fitts' law?

The Gimme Putt

Can Schmidt's law be used to predict the accuracy of golf putts?

Pouring Coffee

How does the information-processing rate create a speed-accuracy trade-off?

Is the Bean Dizzy?

What do Spoonerisms reveal about motor control?

Part II. Adventures in Perception and Action

Chapter 4. Fun With Numbers

Public Opinion Polls

What do central tendency, variability, and statistical significance mean in the context of motor research?

Cutting Wood and Missing Putts

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

The Hot Hand

Do statistics support the existence of hot streaks in sports?

Chapter 5. Perception in Action

Red Light, Green Light

What factors influence reaction time and its measurement?

Jumping the Gun

How can a reaction be distinguished from an anticipation?

Antilock Brakes

How does the complexity of a motor program influence reaction time?

Preventing Penalties and Batting Baseballs

How do athletes use temporal and spatial anticipation?

Craps and Weighted Bats

What role do perceptual illusions play in sport performance?

Chapter 6. Attention

The Toad and the Centipede

Is an internal or external attentional focus better for improving performance?

The Preshot Routine

Why does a consistent mental preparation ritual benefit performance?

Gumbo

What are the limits of attentional capacity?

Fakes

What role does the psychological refractory period play in sport?

Chapter 7. Motor Control

Websites and Silly Walks

How do redundancies help us solve motor problems?

The Curling Draw

What sport skills use open- and closed-loop systems of motor control?

Cool Papa Bell

When vision is interrupted, how does iconic memory guide motor tasks?

Moving Sidewalks and Beer Glasses

How does the end-state comfort effect influence movement planning?

The Tickle

How do motor commands influence sensory feedback during motor control?

The Point of No Return

Is there a point in time after which an initiated motor program cannot be stopped?

Forensic Motor Control

What are generalized motor programs and what do keystroke dynamics reveal about them?

Party Tricks

How does our nervous system use functional linkages to coordinate movements?

Disappearing Act

What makes some coordination patterns more automatic than others?

Part III. Stories About Learning Motor Skills

Chapter 8. Measuring Motor Learning

How You Get to Carnegie Hall

What is the best way to measure progress in motor learning?

The Babe

Can a general motor ability be defined and measured?

Learning to Win From Losing

Why is the learning-performance distinction important?

Zero-Sum Training

What is the practical impact of ineffective training methods?

Chapter 9. Organizing Practice

But I Was Great on the Practice Range!

How does practice repetition influence performance and learning?

The Coach as a Dictionary

What roles does augmented feedback play in motor learning?

The Golfer's Little Helper

What elements of motor learning are neglected when we use mechanical training aids?

Chapter 10. Skill Development

Bend It Like Becker

What types of models are best to observe when learning a skill?

Sport Snake Oils

Can visual training programs improve sport performance?

The Keypad

How do explicit and implicit memories influence skilled performance?

Wayne Gretzky

What role does skilled perception play in sport performance?

Chapter 11. Skill Retention

Shooting Two From the Line

How does the warm-up decrement affect repeated performances?

Like Riding a Bicycle

How are motor skills stored in memory?

H.M.

What does the amnesia suffered by Henry Gustav Molaison reveal about memory and motor skills?
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