Anatomy, Biomechanics, Learning, Teaching - Health & Physical Education
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Overview
Variability and Motor Control is a comprehensive examination of research and theoretical perspectives on movement variability and motor control. The text reviews traditional perspectives - which view movement variability as noise or error - and moves on to consider dynamical systems approaches to movement control, which view variability as an index of movement fluctuations. Written by leading experts in motor control, this text provides valuable information on the importance of variability in the theoretical inquiry into motor control, skill acquisition, and motor impairment; the use of estimated variability as a movement parameter in empirical studies of motor control; and current developments of new dynamical systems approaches to variability and motor control. Variability and Motor Control is a valuable reference for students and scholars of motor control and learning as well as experimental psychologists, ergonomists, and industrial and human-factors specialists.This book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorials
Booknews
The product of a conference on variability and motor control held in Chicago, April 1991, this volume provides a comprehensive examination of research and theoretical perspectives on movement and motor control. Part I provides a summary of the characteristics of force variability and examines several different deterministic models. Part II examines the variability and movement speed-accuracy trade-off from four different deterministic perspectives. New and diverse dynamical systems approaches to variability and motor control are covered in Part III. Finally, Part IV reveals how describing and understanding variability can further the knowledge of movement impairment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
June 1, 1993
Publisher
Champaign IL : Human Kinetics Publishers, c1993.
Pages
510
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780873224246