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The Left Stuff: How the Left-Handed Have Survived and Thrived in a Right-Handed World

Melissa Roth

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A very well-written book. 5 out of 5 stars.
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For anyone interested in left handedness, Melissa Roth's book is a must-read, very up to date. Roth gets straight to the point without resorting to the sorts of pathos, frequent digressions, tongue-in-cheek humor, or stale, decades-old data present in so many other books about left handedness. If you're considering buying a book about left handedness, "the Left Stuff" should be first on your list.

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This book demystifies the place left-handness has held in society, shedding new light on this controversial discussion.

Motor Control And Learning: A Behavioral Emphasis, Fourth Edition

Richard Schmidt, Tim Lee

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Schmidt and Lee Have Provided A Tribute to Motor Learning 5 out of 5 stars.
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Franklin Henry is acknowledged as the father of motor behavior research. His work on reaction time, the motor program, and development of the Specificity Hypothesis have spurred an unparalleled amount of research in the field. Building off the work of Henry, Schmidt, who is a direct student of Henry developed the Schema Theory of Motor Learning. Over the past 30 years the theory has generated much research, being referenced in over 700 journal articles, and achieving the `citation classic' award by the Institute for Scientific Information (Lee, 2003).

Schmidt has also founded the Journal of Motor behavior. Therefore no one is more qualified to write a book on Motor Behavior. Further, Richard Lee is just as qualified, publishing extensively in motor behavior and psychology journals. He is also on the cutting edge of Motor program research, constructing his Cognitive Effort Theory of motor learning.

As a second generation student of Henry, I have been fortunate to have studied under and researched with two first generation students of Henry. Including Dr. Ostarello and Dr. Caplain, as well as studied extensively with one of the nations greatest scientists, and a second generation student of Henry, Dr. Sawyer. I have also instructed in College Motor Control Labs.

Through my extreme study of Motor Behavor, including countless journal articles, and an extensive list of Motor Behavior books I can say with assuredy that this is the most proficient, and outstanding book in its class on the market.

What I am especially impressed with, is the detail Schmidt and Lee go into when describing a certain motor phenomenon. For example in the Speed Accuracy Trade off Chapter, they take you from the work of Woodworth (1899) in which he first formally studied the phenomenon, to the work of Fitts. In doing so they painstakingly and accurately describe each study used by these Giants. They then take you to the present and discuss if these scientists theories have continued to recieve support. Of particular interest in that Chapter was work presented by Schmidt on the Linear Speed accuracy trade off.

Current dominant theory on how movements, namely ballistic movements are controled is Henry's (1958) Motor Program Theory origionally called the Memory Drum Theory. Schmidt has carried this research to the more modern Schema Motor Program Theory. As critical as this concept is to Motor Behavior students, it is a priveledge to be able to read directly from the men who devised these theories. This book provides just that.

Whether you are a student, professor, or scientist working in the field, this book should be on your shelf.

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An authoritative and reader-friendly introduction to the important issues, theories, people, and research in motor behaviour. Includes an online study guide.

Motor Assessment of the Developing Infant

Martha Piper, Johanna Darrah

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AIMS Review 4 out of 5 stars.
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I have found this to be an excellent tool for the assessment of infants birth to 12-18 months. The score sheet is easy to use and the test allows you to evaluate the infant without a lot of unnecessary manipulation. I would recommend this to any therapist who needs an extra tool for infant evaluations.

Use by Student Physical Therapists 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have found this text to be an excellent introduction to the observation of motor development in infants for students in physical therapy.

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University of Alberta, Canada. Text for physical therapists on the assessment of infant motor skills. Includes five copies of the Alberta Infant Motor Scale Record assessment instrument. 2 Canadian contributors. Halftone illustrations. DNLM: Motor Skills - in infancy & childhood.

Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66 and GMFM-88) User's Manual (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

Dianne J. Russell, Peter L. Rosenbaum, Lisa M. Avery, Mary Lane

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not good 1 out of 5 stars.
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I never received this book, the book got lost at the post office!!!!

Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM-66 and GMFM-88) User's Manual 4 out of 5 stars.
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For all clinicians who want to learn and use a measure for child progress. That simple. Their are easier measures to learn but this one is for the more interested clinician.

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The Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM) is the first evaluative measure of motor function designed for quantifying change in the gross motor abilities of children with cerebral palsy. The new version (GMFM-66) of this widely used and now standard outcome assessment tool is completely revised, largely new, and has been improved through Rasch analysis. GMFM-66 transforms the standard GMFM into an interval measure; provides an 'item map' of the relative difficulty among items; and includes a user-friendly, computer-assisted software program to aid in scoring and interpretation of GMFM data. This is included, with a printed scoresheet, on a CD-ROM enclosed in the book.

Motor Learning and Performance

Richard A. Schmidt, Craig A. Wrisberg

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Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioral Emphasis has proved itself to be a major text in the field. Now it has been completely revised, updated, and expanded in light of new concepts in motor behavior by two of the leading researchers in the field.

New features include the addition of

• more than 450 references to research published since the second edition;

• completely updated artwork, including 42 new figures;

• new, practical examples from areas such as human factors, sport, physical therapy, and music; and

• a chapter on coordination research objectively presented from two different theoretical perspectives: motor programming and dynamic pattern theories.

The text’s 14 chapters are organized into 3 parts.
Part I, “Introduction to Motor Behavior,” introduces the fields of motor control and learning, including a brief history, the tools of motor behavior research, the information-processing approach, and the role of attention.

Part II, “Motor Control,” considers various modes of control of the human motor system and presents findings on the laws of simple movements and on how multiple degrees of freedom are coordinated.

Part III, “Motor Learning,” addresses the learning of skills as a result of practice or experience. The focus shifts to the changes in skill, including experimental methods and design factors, topics related to conditions of practice, augmented feedback, retention, transfer, and theories of learning.

Motor Control and Learning: A Behavioral Emphasis includes extensive references, a glossary, both subject and author indexes, and comprehensive representation of the current state of knowledge in motor behavior. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the literature and do research in movement control and learning.

Motor Learning and Performance: From Principles to Practice

Richard A. Schmidt

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Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications

Richard A Magill

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the "umbrella" of motor learning 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have used this text this year in my motor learning class. It covers all the basics from both a motor program view as well as a dynamic systems view and is a must for any student interested in teaching, coaching or applying motor learning techniques to their everyday lives.

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Designed for introductory students, this text provides the reader with a solid research base and defines difficult material by identifying concepts and demonstrating applications for each of those concepts. Motor Learning and Control: Concepts and Applications also includes references for all relevant material to encourage students to examine the research for themselves.

Lifelong Motor Development, Fourth Edition

Carl P. Gabbard

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Lifelong Motor Development is a comprehensive, science-based book covering theory and research of physical growth and motor behavior across the life span. The Fourth Edition features increased coverage of dynamic systems theory P a leading theory in motor development that explains how various body systems work together to control movement. KEY TOPICS Dynamic Systems Theory explains how different body systems work together to control movement. Increased coverage of motor development applications provides readers with practical examples related to careers in motor development. For college instructors and students.

Human Motor Control

David A. Rosenbaum

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This book is a comprehensive, elementary introduction to the field of motor control, stressing psychological, physiological, and computational approaches. Human Motor Control cuts across all disciplines which are defined with respect to movement: physical education, dance, physical therapy, robotics, and so on. The book is unique because it is organized around major activity areas.

Key Features
* It is a comprehensive presentation of the major problems and topics in human motor control
* Incorporates applications of work that lie outside the traditional sports or physical education teaching areas
* Emphasizes computational aspects of movement, and gives a much more detailed treatment of motor neurophysiology than other textbooks
* Includes critical appraisals of current research on such topics as internal representations of forthcoming movements, and important new theories such as Synergetics
* Compiles the latest research--each chapter has been reviewed by at least one expert
* Presents extensive discussions of activities such as tennis, long-jumping, diving, and swimming
* Features a second part which is organized in a modular fashion to allow you to read only chapters of interest

Perception with an Eye for Motion (Bradford Books)

James E. Cutting

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Perception with an Eye for Motion analyzes the availability and use of visual information from moving objects and by moving observers to conclude that information in our visual environment is sufficiently rich so that perception can occur largely without the help of cognition.

The book is unique in several respects. It is interdisciplinary in scope, combining philosophy, history, perceptual science, and research in a sound balance; the problems that philosophers and computer scientists are dealing with are taken up in a way that will appeal to psychologists. It is the first book to treat invariance in perception in a rigorous manner, and it solves the problem of direction finding in optic flow (the motions of objects generated by our own movement through space) by discerning what information is useful and can be relied upon.

The first five chapters take up information for vision, delving into philosophical and historical issues, particularly the trustworthiness of perception, and the relation of space and projections of objects as'discussed in art and science. These chapters also cover optics, illusions, picture perception, and more particularly invariance as a term from mathematics applied to perception.

Eight chapters present the author's own research, published here for the first time. These include experiments and results concerning the perception of a moving planar surface and the perception of one's direction of movement through an environment. The book concludes by discussing two centuries-old classes of perceptual theory - direct and indirect perception - and a new theory class which the author calls "directed perception."

James E. Cutting is Professor of Psychology, Cornell University. A Bradford Book.