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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Motor Skill Learning"”.
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Human Movement Sonification for Motor Skill Learning
… live sound can be used as a method to enhance motor skill learning via the provision of augmented perceptual feedback. A small but growing number of studies hint at the substantial efficacy of this approach, termed 'movement sonification'. However there has been sparse discussion in Psychology …
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tDCS effects on synaptic plasticity and motor skill learning
<p>Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique that involves the application of low-intensity constant current to the brain through electrodes placed on the scalp. Its potential to enhance brain function and treat brain-related disorders has led to …
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Efficiency and Motor Skill Learning (Locomotion, Physical, Physiology, Evolution, Practice)
… fit adult male subjects crawling on a horizontal motor-driven treadmill at .76 m/s. E% was the ratio of the work output of individual limb segments, based on a link segment model, to metabolic energy expenditure measured using indirect calorimetry. A repeated measures ANOVA showed a significant …
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ColloGraphy: Designing Augmented Visual-Haptic Feedback Systems to Support Fine Motor Skill Learning
Learning motor skills is an essential part of our daily lives. However, certain activities can be challenging to comprehend through observation alone, especially for beginners. Specifically, this thesis focuses on Chinese calligraphy writing as an example of a complex, fine motor task, in which …
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The Neurobiology of Motor Skill Learning: Structural Adaptation Within Sensorimotor Regions of the Rat Brain
… more synapses/neuron within layer II/III of the motor cortex than control animals and that this difference was dependent on the amount of training the animals received. Changes in synapse morphology were also observed in the AC animals that included significant increases in postsynaptic density …
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A psycholinguistic exploration of focus of attention in second language learning based on recent research findings from the field of motor skill learning
Significant findings from motor skill learning research provide evidence that focus of attention (FOA), induced through instruction, impacts on performance and learning (Wulf, 2007). External FOA instructions, which direct focus to the effect of actions, enhance performance compared with internal …
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Guidelines for Psychomotor Skill Instruction for Athletic Performance: A Design and Development Study
… psychology to provide guidance for effective learning. The realm of athletics is an area that can benefit from these instructional frameworks by providing systematic methods to facilitate an efficient learning process. This study employed Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction to develop …
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Effects of Practice on Learning and Retention of Tool-Related Motor Skills in Parkinson's Disease
… with Parkinson’s disease (PD) show preserved learning of tool-related motor skills within a session. However, as a possible result of striatal dysfunction, retention has been found to be impaired after a 3-week delay. The goal of the current study was to further examine motor skill impairments …
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The effect of different imagery ratios on learning and performing a gymnastic floor routine
… Twenty-seven school-aged, male and female, skilled gymnasts participated in the study. They were randomly separated into four experimental groups: two groups received three imagery sessions per week and two groups received one imagery session per week. The only delimitation was the use of …
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Modulation of motor learning with high-intensity transcranial electric stimulation
… done commonly in the literature, we targeted the motor cortex (M1), specifically in the context of neuroplastic changes taking place during motor learning in healthy adult humans. This work also seeks a better understanding of the neural correlates underlying motor skill learning.</p> <p>Through …
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Motor training and cervical spine manipulation: effects on sensorimotor integration
… brain processing. The effects of manipulation on motor learning in individuals with SCNP have not been investigated until now. Studies in this thesis sought to develop and investigate a novel motor training task to be coupled with cervical spine manipulation to investigate its effects on …
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L'APPRENDIMENTO MOTORIO IN UN CAMPIONE DI BAMBINI TRA 6 E 11 ANNI
È noto che l’acquisizione di un’abilità motoria è frutto dell’interazione di due processi: apprendimento e memoria. Solo dopo una quantità critica di ripetizioni, per effetto di un processo definito per tentativi ed errori, è possibile raggiungere l’optimum, cioè il soggetto sarà in grado di …
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Oligodendrocytes of the adult median eminence
… to physiologically relevant stimuli such as motor skill learning. Emerging evidence suggests that OL genesis is influenced by nutritional stimuli in the healthy and diseased brain, with recent studies highlighting that OPCs in the adult median eminence (ME) are highly proliferative and …
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A test of the variability of practice hypothes: the acquisition of a gross motor skill
… Practice Hypothesis (Schmidt, 1975) in a gross motor skill learning situation. More specifically, to assess the effectiveness of varying the initial conditions of a practice method, which was designed to facilitate the transfer of an expanded range of skills to the actual playing situation. 32 …
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PEN-BASED GESTURE RECOGNITION
… an experienced user will increasingly rely on motor memory when performing certain tasks. This observation, and the catalytic effect of Kurtenbach and Buxton's radial menus idea, inspired us to devise a set of radial gestures for direct manipulation. A supporting set of gestures for …