Advances in Motor Learning and Control - Hardcover

Zelaznik, Howard N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873229479 ISBN 13: 9780873229470

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

A reference providing in-depth historical perspectives based on traditional information-processing approaches and dynamical systems approaches, in addition to new research in neuroanatomy and neural organization. The 20 contributors survey research in reaction time analysis, information feedback, t

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About the Author

Howard N. Zelaznik, PhD, is professor of Health, Kinesiology and Leisure Studies at Purdue University.

The executive editor of the Journal of Motor Behavior from 1989 to 1996, he also is the author or coauthor of numerous book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews. Zelaznik collaborated with R.C. Schmidt to write about speed-accuracy trade-off theory, published in Psychological Review, and about movement variability, published in a chapter of the book Variability and Motor Control (Human Kinetics). He also has written on bimanual coordination in collaboration with E.A. Franz and G. McCabe.

Zelaznik earned his PhD in physical education from the University of Southern California in 1978. From 1986 to 1989 he was section editor on motor control for the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.

A frequent reviewer for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, Zelaznik is president of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity. He also is a Fellow both of the American Psychological Society and the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873229479
• ISBN 13: 9780873229470
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320