Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioural Emphasis - Hardcover

Schmidt, Richard A.

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9780880114844: Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioural Emphasis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0880114843 ISBN 13: 9780880114844

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, 2005

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Features more than 450 references to research published since the 2nd edition; completely updated artwork, including 42 new figures, new practical examples from areas such as human factors, sport, physical theory.

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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) "

About the Author:

Richard A. Schmidt manages his own consulting firm in which he researches issues in human performance and ergonomics. He is also professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California Los Angeles. Timothy D. Lee has been a contributing editor for the Journal of Motor Behaviour and the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport and worked as an editorial board member for the Psychological Review.

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