Lifespan Motor Control Key Points - ALL LECTURES Flashcards
What is Motor Learning?
- aquisition of new skills
- performance enhancement of well-learned skills
- reacquisition of skills following injury, disease, etc
What is Motor Control?
- how the neuromuscular system functions to enable coordinated movement while learning a new skill and/or performing a well-learned skill
What is Motor Development?
human development from infancy to old age
What is a motor skill?
an activity or task that has a specific purpose or goal to achieve
What are the characteristics of a skill?
- goal is achieved with maximum certainty
- goal can be achieved under a wide range of conditions
- goal is achieved with minimal effort
What is an open vs closed movement?
Open: adapt movement strategies to constantly changing and unpredictable environments
Closed: relatively fixed or predictable environments
What are regulatory vs nonregulatory features?
regulatory: aspects of environment that shape the movement itself
nonregulatory: features of environment that movement does not have to conform to
what are closed vs open motor skills?
closed: involve stationary supporting surface, object, and/or other people. performer determines when to begin the action.
open: involve supporting surface, object, and/or other people in motion. environmental features determines when to begin the action
Continues vs discrete vs serial motor skills?
continuous: involves things in motion, environment determines when to begin the action (steering a car)
discrete: specified beginning and end, simple movement (flipping a switch)
serial: involves a continuous series of discrete movements (shifting gears in car)
What is reaction time?
interval of time between onset of a signal and initiation of response or movement
what is a simple type response?
only reacting one single way towards a stimulus.
ex: touch something hot, remove finger. gun goes off during race, you run. hearing test as kid, raise hand.
what is a choice type response?
multiple possible outcomes, different reaction for each one
ex: traffic light, reaction is based on light color
what is a discrimination type response?
multiple things going on, only respond to one
ex: fruit ninja, only cut the fruit
how does a more intense stimulus affect RT?
faster RT
how does a longer duration of stimulus affect RT?
faster RT
how does an auditory signal vs visual signal affect RT?
auditory signal results in faster RT than visual
what is absolute error?
measures magnitude of error - generates one number
what is a constant error?
signed deviation from the goal
- provides info about bias
- accounts for direction of deviation but can cancel each other out and give false representation
what is a variable error?
- calculation SD of CE
- provides information about consistency
what is touch’s role in motor control?
- movement accuracy
- movement consistency
- movement timing
- movement force adjustment
- estimate movement distance
what is proprioception’s role in motor control?
sensation and perception of limb, trunk, and head position during movement
- timing of onset of motor commands
- coordination of body and limb segmnets
- postural control
what is vision’s role in motor control?
vision provides the only direct measure of self motion with respect to the visual world
binocular vision vs monocular vision in motor control ?
binocular vision is important for depth perception and provides better info for movement control for motor skills such as locomotion in cluttered environment and reaching/grasping objects
how does central vision help motor control?
provides specific info to allow us to achieve action goals.
contributes to controlling transport of limb to object and grasping
provides specific pathway info to stay on path and avoid obstacles
how does peripheral vision help motor control?
provides info about environmental context and moving limbs // detects info beyond central vision limits
what are the three roles vestibular system has for motor control?
- gaze stabilization
- balance (head in space)
- navigation
what is the trade off for speed-accuracy?
increase speed, decrease accuracy. vice versa.
what is movement time?
time between initiation & completion of task
what is fitt’s law?
mathematically predict movement time for speed-accuracy skills. need movement distance and target size.
what is open-loop control?
initial movement speed, direction, and accuracy are under CNS control without feedback. move limb into vicinity of target.
what is closed-loop control?
visual feedback about limb’s relative position to that target is used to guide the homing in phase of limb to ensure accurate landing on target
constant visual contact is needed when?
initial flight portion and just prior to hand contact
what is the reflex motor theory?
complex behavior explained thru combined action of individual reflexes that were chained together
what is the heirarchial motor theory?
organizational control is top-down. normal movement requires the highest level of CNS = the cortex
what is degrees of freedom?
how much movement is possible at a joint, all the joints in the limb acting together
what are CPGs?
Central Pattern Generator
- spinally mediated motor programs
- generate complex movements such as gait on their own
- no cortical control
what are the two neural components of Adam’s Closed Loop Theory?
- Memory Trace = selects & initiates response
- Perceptual Trace = record of movement over many practices
What type of feedback is necessary for Adam’s Theory?
sensory feedback
what type of training increases learning when using Adam’s theory?
specificity
what is Schmidt’s schema theory?
open loop - feedforward. recalls schema to evaluate the response via sensory feedback. no sensory feedback is needed if the movement is already learned. (think writing cursive with dom hand, then nondom hand, then foot, etc. you know how to do it even with varying limbs)
what type of training increases learning when using schmidt’s schema theory?
variability