Psychology of Human Movement

Approx.339 pages

ContributorsForewordPrefaceChapter 1 Movement, Action and Skill 1. Introduction 2. Describing and Understanding Movement 3. Movement and Skill in Psychology 4. Movement, Action and Information Processing 5. The Rest of This BookChapter 2 Physiology of Motor Control 1. Introduction 2. Building Blocks of the Nervous System 3. Spinal Mechanisms 4. Supraspinal Mechanisms 5. Interactions between Components of the Motor System 6. ConclusionChapter 3 Planning and Controlling Simple Movements 1. Introduction 2. Categories of Movement 3. Fitts's Law 4. Sources of Information in the Control of Movement 5. Theories of Motor Control 6. Motor Programs 7. Feedback Control 8. Movement Variation and Schema Theory 9. ConclusionChapter 4 Memory for Movements 1. Introduction 2. The Short-Term Motor-Memory Paradigm 3. Measuring Memory for Simple Movements 4. Memory for Constrained Movements 5. Interference in Memory 6. Active, Passive and Self-Selected Movements 7. Sight and Feel in Memory for Movement 8. Vision and Subject Control 9. Strategies 10. Context in Memory for Movement 11. ConclusionChapter 5 Perception and Action 1. Introduction 2. Types of Perceptual Input 3. How Many Visual Systems? 4. Orientation to the World: Balance and Posture 5. Perception and Feedback 6. Skilled Perception 7. Perceptual Schemas 8. ConclusionChapter 6 The Sequencing of Movements 1. Introduction 2. Feedback in Sequencing Movements 3. Parameters in the Motor Program 4. Levels of Representation of Movement Sequences 5. Errors in Movement Sequences 6. ConclusionChapter 7 Doing Two Things at Once: Process Limitations and Interactions 1. Introduction 2. Experimental Methods 3. Theoretical Approaches to Dual-Task Performance 4. The Use of Dual-Task Methodology in the Analysis of Movement Control 5. Levels of Interference 6. ConclusionChapter 8 The Acquisition of Skill 1. Introduction 2. Stages in Skill Acquisition 3. Theoretical Accounts of the Learning Process 4. Coordinative Structures and Transfer 5. Practice 6. ConclusionChapter 9 The Development of Movement Control 1. Introduction 2. Myelination 3. The Developmental Sequence in the First Year 4. Reaching 5. ConclusionChapter 10 Disorders of Movement 1. Introduction 2. Pathological Changes in the Central Nervous System (CNS) 3. Clinical Assessment of Movement 4. Empirical Studies of Motor Disorders 5. Conscious Representation of Goal-Directed Action 6. ConclusionAfterwordGlossaryReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index