Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioural Emphasis - Hardcover

Schmidt, Richard A.

 
9780873221153: Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioural Emphasis

Synopsis

This is a text for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in motor behaviour. A significant feature of the second edition is the integration of neurophysiological and biomechanical research with the motor behaviour literature. Comprehensive information is provided on visual control of action, the role of reflexes, task interference, limitations in information processing, effects of stress on performance and the Schema theory.

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This is a text for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in motor behaviour. A significant feature of the second edition is the integration of neurophysiological and biomechanical research with the motor behaviour literature. Comprehensive information is provided on visual control of action, the role of reflexes, task interference, limitations in information processing, effects of stress on performance and the Schema theory.

Review

""This book fulfills the need to have students understand the nature and complexities of the human motor control system from a behavioral and cognitive perspective." David E. Sherwood, PhD University of Colorado, Boulder (review of previous edition) """This book has been the mainstay of an entire field and clearly will remain so.""" "Peceptual and Motor Skills" (review of third edition) "

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