KNPE 261 weeks 1-4 Flashcards
factors affecting movement
person, environment and task
principles of motor control and learning are applied to:
-coaching/teaching
-rehab
-surgical skills
-ergonomics
-robotics
george berkley astated in the New Theory of Vision:
a being with perfect sight but no touch could not develop the ability to percieve 3 dimensions
Woodworth systematic classification of movement
movement has 2 phases: ballistic and online control
Thorndike Law of Effect
responses rewarded are repeated and responses not rewarded are not repeated
Hull 1943
fatigue as a result of practive is the mechanism underlying learning…. NOT TRUE
Motor learning definition
a set of processes associated with practice or experience that leads to a relatively permanent change in the capacity for movement
Motor control definition
an area of study dealing with the understanding of the neural, physical and behavioural aspects of movement
which of the following experimental approaches would most likely conform to thorndike’s view of motor learning
a)pavlovs classical conditioning
b) startle-response
c) zimbardos prison experiments
d) freuds case studies
e) none
e) none of the above
**it would be operant conditioning
what performance measures are most predictive of player success?
consistency or variability
Define a motor skill
task with specific goal, performed voluntarily, requiring body and/or limb movement, needs to be learned
are all movements motor skills
no. ex. reflexes
components of a motor skill
- Perceiving relevant environmental features (defining goal positions and outcomes)
- Deciding what to do and the timing of the action (planning and programming how to achieve goal)
- Producing muscular activity required to generate the movement goal (sending and adjusting commands)
why is it important to categorize motor skills
- To be able to understand research literature (communicate findings and learn new tecniques)
- Motor behaviours are complex (certain rules/models may only apply to a subset of tasks)
**results dont often match literature
Classification of skills
discrete vs continuous
open vs closed
fine vs gross
**these are a continuum
discrete skill
clear start and end
example discrete skill
shooting a BB or kicking a ball
serial movement
set of discrete movements strung together
example of serial movement
gymnastics routine
continuous movement
no clear start and end, repetitive
example continuous movement
running, swimming, steering car
opens skills vs closed skills
open skills are unpredictable whereas closed skills are predictable
example open skill
catching a butterfly or wrestling
example closed skill
bowling, brushing teeth, writing
Open skills
-unpredictable
-adaptability
Closed skills
-precise and consistent via practice planning and programming movements
Fine motor skills
involve small muscle groups
gross motor skills
involve large muscle groups
considerations when measuring motor performance
objectivity, reliability
& validity
why is measuring motor performance important
critical for evaluations and help us gauge the amount of learning
objectivity
the likelihood that 2 individuals/tools would be able to come up with the same measure of performance
reliability
interaction between the tools used to measure
validity
how do measurements translate from a closed/controlled setting to an open/real world setting
on a single trial how could we calculate how far an arrow is from a target
constant error
Mean Constant error
average error in the response
Constant error
-the amount and direction of bias away from the target
-useful for providing feedback about tendency or bias
limitations of constant error
errors can cancel out, if they are in opposite directions as the + or - indicated direction of bias
- to overcome this, take more trials
Assesing consistency of a shot
variable error (does not take into account WHERE the target is)
Variable error
- the difference between performance score and the persons own mean
-reflects consistency (variability)
-not concerned with target position
Constant error is a measure of
accuracy
variable error is a measure of
precision/ consistency
what to look for in a player
low variable error, this means they are consistent and precise may just have to shift aim
Overall error
-measure of root mean square error (RMSE)
-sum of squared differences between the achieved position and the goal position
-similar to VE but with reference to target position
skills can be classified depending on their
-progression from start to end (discrete vs continuous)
-predictability of environment (open vs closed)
-size of musculature used (fine vs gross)
motor performance can be assessed by computing
- CE - measuring bias
- VE - measuring consistency
- TE - measuring consistency around a target
when the constant error is close to zero, what is the relationship between total variability and variable error?
total variability and variable error will be similar or equal (if CE=0)
Absolute Error
-absolute deviation between the performers movements and the target
(no direction, a miss of 3 units even if they are in opposite directions)
Absolute constant error
-just removes the sign of constant error
when would absolute constant error be useful
eliminates bias when summarizing the whole group
measuring performance in a continuous task
-compute the difference between performed trajectory and target trajectory
-RMSE (measuring deviation over a sampling variable, usually time)
Muybridge (1887, 1979)
examined different phases of movements in humans and horses
motor control and learning is often concerned with
errors and performance (examining endpoint variables and strageties)
movements can be characterized by looking at
kinematics (concerend with motion)
Kinematic markers that are used to describe movements
-position information (where limb is in space)
-velocity information (rate of change of position)
-Acceleration (rate of change of velocity)
Temporal and temporal-kinematic variables used to describe movement
reaction time, movement time, time to/after kinematic markers
why are kinematics useful
-give researcher/coach detailedinformation about current performance and improvements in actions
-can provide detailed, understandable feedback
kinematisc in the brain
neuronal recording studies have found that neuronal firing patterns in motor related areas in the brain predict the kinematics of movements (posterior pariteal cortex and motor cortex)
Temporal Characteristics
Reaction time
-RT was used for as a proxy for cognitive function
what is Reaction Time
a measure of the time from arrival of a stimulus to the beginning of the response (stimulus is unanticipated)
How can we control for anticipation
vary the time that the stimulus is presented to make it more unpredictable OR “go” and “no go” tasks
2 components of reaction time
pre motor & motor
pre-motor RT
no muscle activity but stimulus has been presented
motor RT
muscle activity but no overt movement - start producing force
movement time
time interval from initiation of the response to the completion of the movement
response time
RT + MT
different processes studied using RT and MT
-processes to initiate a movement
-processes to complete a movement
-different processes may underlie correcting a movement as well
movement measuring devices
-KINARM
-marked motion capture
-markerless capture
correlations
measure both direction and strength of a relationship
Correlation coefficent (R)
number indicates: relationship fro -1 to +1
sign indicates: direction
regression
allows to predict one variable from another
indirect way of measuring capability in a motor task
dual cognitive task because attention is a limited source, the less attention a task takes, the more the performer has mastered it
Dual task training
little evidence that this causes underlying changes
RMSE
difference between ideal and optimal trajectories (movement paths)
Is there any real scientific basis for these new cognitive-motor performance sports training devices?
new higher quality research suggests there could be…. but not necessarily for sport performance
When would you use absolute error?
accuracy without bias
when would you use constant error?
accuracy when there is conflicting bias (sample w subset of ppl w opposite magnitudes)
when would you use RMSE
continuous movements, sampling over a variable
what are the two components of rxn time
premotor and motor
Hoe can we measure task performance and gain insight into expertise?
dual cognitive task performance
which errors have a linear relationship with total variability
VE and CE
effect size 0.10
small
effect size 0.30
medium
effect size 0.50
large
chronometric approach
measure timings between input and output to infer how much processing happened between
RT is related to
amount of processing of a stimulus or task
other factors affecting RT: fatigue or drugs
correlation between rxn time and processing
positive: as one increases so does the other
simple Reaction Time
a task involving reacting to ONE stimulus with 1 response
*correlated with age
what are simple RT tasks affected by
fatigue, attention, sensory modality of the cue (visual, hearing, feel)
parallel processing
overlapping processes - 2 or more stages occurring at once