43 – P&A Court II: Low vs High Variability in Motor Control & Learning

Should the goal of practice be to reduce movement variability to
as low a value as possible? Is high variability the signature of
an unskilled performer or a necessity for effective learning?


 


Articles/links:


A schema theory of discrete motor skill learning
Feedback-Induced Variability and the Learning of Generalized
Motor Programs Optimizing generalized motor program and parameter
learning

Variability in baseball pitching biomechanics among various
levels of competition
What variability tells us about movement expertise The bliss
(not the problem) of motor abundance (not redundancy) Timing an
attacking forehand drive in table tennis Regulation of gait in long
jumping Inter-individual variability in the upper–lower limb
breaststroke coordination Differing Roles of Functional Movement
Variability as Experience Increases in Gymnastics The education of
attention as explanation of variability of practice effects:
learning the final approach phase in a flight simulator

More information:


http://perceptionaction.com/


My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)


My ASU Web page


Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)


 


Credits:


The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action


Mr Airplane Man – Very Bad Feeling


Dazie Mae – The Very Opposite of My Husband


The New Mystickal Troubadours – The Fully-Blissed Out


Leather Uppers – I Don’t Like You Very Much


Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy