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For example, by only doing pull-ups on the same regular pull-up bar, the body becomes adapted to this specific physical demand, but not necessarily to other climbing patterns or environments. In 1958, Berkeley Professor of Physical Education Franklin M. Henry proposed the "Specificity Hypothesis of Motor Learning". [citation needed]
The existence of motor equivalence, i.e., the ability to perform the same action in multiple ways for instance using different muscles or the same muscles under different conditions. This suggests that a general code specifying the final output exists which is translated into specific muscle action sequences
Domain specificity emerged in the aftermath of the cognitive revolution as a theoretical alternative to empiricist theories that believed all learning can be driven by the operation of a few such general learning devices. Prominent examples of such domain-general views include Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, and the views of ...
The way in which a person's body and their surroundings interacts also allows for specific brain functions to develop and in the future to be able to act. [1] This means that not only does the mind influence the body's movements, but the body also influences the abilities of the mind, also termed the bi-directional hypothesis. There are three ...
For example, Mikhail Lebedev, Miguel Nicolelis and their colleagues recently demonstrated cortical plasticity that resulted in incorporation of an external actuator controlled through a brain–machine interface into the subject's neural representation. [16] At a cellular level, motor learning manifests itself in the neurons of the motor cortex.
The motor theory of speech perception argues that behind the sounds we hear are the intended movements of the vocal tract that pronounces them. The hypothesis has its origins in research using pattern playback to create reading machines for the blind that would substitute sounds for orthographic letters. [6]
A common example is observing previous motor abilities from one skill interfering with a new set of motor abilities being learned in another skill from the initial. [1] Proactive interference is also associated with poorer list discrimination, which occurs when participants are asked to judge whether an item has appeared on a previously learned ...
An action plan is a construct that invokes intention and ultimately results in a specific movement configuration on a given performance (Miller et al. 1960 as cited by Guadagnoli and Lee 2004). See motor control. Feedback may be inherent to the individual (e.g. vision) or available via external, augmented sources (e.g. verbal instruction).