e066 Motor learning and control

Faculty of Sports Studies
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Stanisław Henryk Czyż, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Stanisław Henryk Czyż, Ph.D.
Incubator of Kinanthropology Research – Faculty of Sports Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. František Hurt
Supplier department: Incubator of Kinanthropology Research – Faculty of Sports Studies
Prerequisites (in Czech)
BOZP_OK(bozp_po_stud_fsps)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 4/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 3/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course's main objective is to help students understand how people perform and learn motor skills. Students will explore the theoretical basis and how these relate to the practice setting. Helpful tips on how to learn and how to teach will be provided. Real-life examples will be analyzed.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the course participant will be able to:
1. understand, define and distinguish terms, concepts, theories, models existing in motor learning and control;
2. understand how people acquire and control new motor skills, what is the dynamic of learning;
3. enhance the motor learning process;
4. design and use acquired knowledge in everyday situations.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to motor skills and abilities
  • • The classification of motor skills (skills, actions, movements, one-dimensions classifications, Gentile’s taxonomy)
  • • The measurement of motor performance (reaction time, error measure, kinematic and kinetics measure, EMG, brain activity measures, coordination measures)
  • • Motor abilities (abilities vs skills, classification of motor skills)
  • 2. Introduction to motor control
  • • Neuromotor basis for motor control (neuron, CNS, neural control of voluntary movement)
  • • Motor control theories (theory, open-loop and closed-loop control systems; two perspectives on motor control, the OPTIMAL theory of motor learning)
  • • Sensory components of motor control (touch, proprioception, vision)
  • • Performance and characteristics of functional skills (speed-accuracy skills, prehension, handwriting, bimanual coordination, catching a moving object, striking a moving object, locomotion)
  • • Action preparation (information processing)
  • 3. Attention and memory
  • • Attention as limited capacity (multitasking, dual-task procedure, focusing attention, automaticity, visual attention and search)
  • • Memory components, forgetting and strategies (memory model, working memory, LTM and STM, remembering and forgetting, enhancing memory, practice-test context effect)
  • 4. Introduction to motor skill learning
  • • Defining and assessing learning (performance vs. learning, performance changes due to learning, learning assessments)
  • • The stages of learning (Fitts and Posner model, Gentile’s model, Bernstein’s theory, learning dynamics, expertise)
  • • Transfer of learning (definition, transfer concepts, negative, positive transfer, bilateral transfer)
  • 5. Instruction and augmented feedback
  • • Demonstration and verbal instruction (mechanisms, theories, cues, practical approach)
  • • Augmented feedback (types of feedback, the role of feedback, feedback reduction and delay)
  • 6. Practice conditions
  • • Practice specificity and variability (types of variability, benefits of implementing different types of variability, practice scheduling)
  • • Amount and distribution of practice (overlearning, massed and distributed practice, practice intervals and distribution)
  • • Whole and part practice (complexity and organization, Naylor and Briggs hypothesis)
  • • Mental practice (role of mental practice, effectiveness of mental practice)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • MAGILL, Richard A. and David ANDERSON. Motor learning and control : concepts and applications. Twelfth edition. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 2021, xiv, 544. ISBN 9781260570557. info
  • SCHMIDT, Richard A., Timothy Donald LEE, Carolee J. WINSTEIN, Gabriele WULF and Howard N. ZELAZNIK. Motor control and learning : a behavioral emphasis. Sixth edition. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics, 2019, xvii, 531. ISBN 9781492547754. info
    not specified
  • SCHMIDT, Richard A. and Timothy Donald LEE. Motor learning and performance : from principles to application. Sixth edition. Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics, 2020, xix, 308. ISBN 9781492574682. info
  • TRESILIAN, James. Sensorimotor control and learning : an introduction to the behavioral neuroscience of action. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, xxii, 879. ISBN 9780230371057. info
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2024.
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