Motor control (PRACTICAL)

Question 1

what is the purpose of assessing motor control

Answer 1

enables quantification of a person’s ability to perform targeted and controlled movements at range of contraction levels.

Question 2

what are the 2 neural pathways are involved in performing motor actions and their directions?

Answer 2

motor pathway: direction is efferent

sensory pathway: direction is afferent

Question 3

what are 2 age-related adaptations of the CNS that may result in older people having poorer motor control than younger people

Answer 3

• reduced cortical excitability at the motor cortex level
• impaired descending drive to motoneurons in the spinal cord at the spinal level

Question 4

what are 2 benefits of using language/code for data analysis?

Answer 4

• can easily be shared so enables replication of analysis
• less prone to human error