HPE2663 — Motor Development & Skill Acquisition
This course focuses on the behavioral, biomechanical, and neural bases of the development, acquisition, and performance of functional movement skills. Acquisition of skill is examined over the lifespan in typically developing and impaired individuals. Movement analysis is used to elucidate the neuromotor control processes underlying skilled performance in everyday functional behaviors, sport, and dance. Students who plan to go into professions in which research related to human motor skill is required, or who majoring in professions in which assisting people to learn (or relearn) motor skills is an important part of the job, such as teaching, coaching, physical therapy, occupational therapy, industrial training, athletic training, and various medical/rehabilitation related careers, etc. Various topics related to the cognitive and motor processes influencing the learning of motor skills will be discussed throughout the course. Specifically, topics to be covered will include the assessment of learning, changes during learning, attention, augmented feedback, transfer of knowledge.