Motor learning and performance :

Schmidt, Richard A.

Motor learning and performance : from principles to application / Richard A. Schmidt, Timothy D. Lee. - Fifth edition. - Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2014] - xx, 315 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 access card.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-306) and index.

Introduction to motor learning and performance -- Processing information and making decisions -- Attention and performance -- Sensory contributions to skilled performance -- Motor programs -- Principles of speed, accuracy, and coordination -- Individual differences -- Introduction to motor learning -- Skill acquisition, retention, and transfer -- Organizing and scheduling practice -- Augmented feedback.

This book describes the principles of motor performance and learning in a style that is accessible even to students with little or no knowledge of physiology, psychology, statistical methods, and other basic sciences. Constructing an easy-to-understand conceptual model of motor performance along the way, this text outlines the principles of motor skill learning, building a strong understanding of how skills are acquired and perfected with practice and showing students how to apply the concepts to a variety.

9781450443616 (print)


Motor learning.
Motor Activity.
Kinesthesis.
Psychomotor Performance.
Learning.

BF 295 / .Sch55 2014