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Intro To Motor Learning

The document discusses motor behaviour, focusing on the development, control, and learning of motor skills, highlighting the interrelation between motor control and motor learning. It outlines the stages of motor learning according to the information processing model and introduces the dynamical systems model, emphasizing the importance of feedback and practice. Additionally, it presents research findings on distributed versus massed practice and provides practical resources for skill acquisition.

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Intro To Motor Learning

The document discusses motor behaviour, focusing on the development, control, and learning of motor skills, highlighting the interrelation between motor control and motor learning. It outlines the stages of motor learning according to the information processing model and introduces the dynamical systems model, emphasizing the importance of feedback and practice. Additionally, it presents research findings on distributed versus massed practice and provides practical resources for skill acquisition.

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MOTOR BEHAVIOUR

(MOTOR LEARNING)
EPHE 143

Drew Commandeur, PhD


MOTOR BEHAVIOUR

Study of the development, control, and learning of motor skills (Thomas, 2006; Ulrich &
Reeve, 2005).

Encompasses motor control and motor learning (interrelated) as well as motor


development

Guides us in providing better situations for learning and practice, understanding why some
cues and feedback work better than others, the fundamental science of how the
neuromuscular system is controlled, and how this changes over the lifespan.
MOTOR LEARNING

Acquisition of skilled movements as a result of feedback, practice, and experience


▪ Learning (relatively permanent change in behaviour or performance as a result of practice or
experience) vs performance (what can be observed or measured)

▪ Learning is inferred from improvements in performance as a result of instruction and practice

▪ 2 primary models of motor learning: information processing model and dynamical systems model
3 STAGES OF MOTOR LEARNING
(INFORMATION PROCESSING MODEL)
Cognitive: receive visual or verbal knowledge about the skill
▪ Inconsistent performance; large gains in performance

Associative: learn how to perform skill


▪ smaller gains in performance, conscious incompetence

Autonomous: perform skill with little cognitive processing demands


▪ few errors; can now attend and process other info

If you were to coach a skill for the first time, what are 1-2 techniques you could use at
each stage of learning?
MOTOR LEARNING MODELS
INFORMATION PROCESSING MODEL
Appropriate motor
Info is processed by
Info obtained from program is retrieved
brain & appropriate
the environment from memory and is
response is decided
executed

Decision
Input Output
Making

Feedback

Info about
performance
retrieved & used.
MOTOR LEARNING MODELS
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS MODEL
Heredity, past Human
experience, fitness, Movement
motivation, etc.

Individual

Task Environment

Demands of task Space, weather,


(accuracy, speed, or teachers skills,
both), rules, difficulty, competition, peer
equipment, etc. pressure, etc.
DISTRIBUTED VS MASSED:
RESEARCH EXAMPLE
RESULTS:

Both groups showed immediate improvement in


performance
Only the distributed group performed significantly better
in the retention test in most outcome measures
▪ Time
▪ # of hand movements
▪ Expert global ratings

Distributed group also out-performed massed group on


live rat anastomosis in all expert-based measures
HOW TO LEARN: A PRACTICAL
EXAMPLE
Mike Boyd: YouTube channel for learning various skills
[Link]

Why learning is quicker than you think it is:


[Link]

The 10hr Rule


[Link]

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