Motor Functions Books - Page 2

Lifelong Motor Development, Fourth Edition

Carl P. Gabbard

Amazon Price: $97.40 List Price: $97.40 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Benjamin Cummings Amazon Marketplace: 30 new & used starting at $0.67

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Exercise & Fitness -> General
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Exercise & Fitness -> General AAS
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Motor Functions

Editorial Review:

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

Amazon Price: $74.95 List Price: $74.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Academic Press Amazon Marketplace: 21 new & used starting at $13.35

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Mental Health -> General
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Mental Health -> General AAS
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Motor Functions

Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

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

Management of the Motor Disorders of Children with Cerebral Palsy (Clinics in Developmental Medicine (Mac Keith Press))

Amazon Price: $91.95 List Price: $91.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: MacKeith Press Amazon Marketplace: 21 new & used starting at $84.33

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Motor Functions
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> Physiological Aspects
Subjects -> Medicine -> Internal Medicine -> Neurology -> General

Editorial Review:

Since the first edition of this book was published in 1984, the intensive debates about the 'correct' method of treatment for children with cerebral palsy have been resolved; it is now possible to describe what is generally agreed to be the optimal approach. This entirely rewritten new edition compiles the most up-to-date information, reflecting a worldwide overview. Coverage includes the coordination of care and the management team; the types of cerebral palsy; assessment; goal-setting; learning and neural plasticity; global therapeutic approaches and more focused (topical) therapies; the mechanisms of deformity, its prevention and treatment; and the transition to adult life.

Cognitive Issues in Motor Expertise (Advances in Psychology)

Amazon Price: $220.00 List Price: $220.00 Usually ships in 24 hours By: North Holland Amazon Marketplace: 22 new & used starting at $214.75

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Motor Functions
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Perception
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> Cognitive

Editorial Review:

Hardbound. The intent of this book is to describe those perceptual and cognitive components which contribute to skilled motor performance in a wide variety of disciplines, including sports, microsurgery, video games, and speech. Also considered are issues in the measurement of motor skill, the development of motor skill across the life span, and the importance of individual differences in the development of motor skill. Many chapters contain studies employing the expertise approach used so successfully to study cognitive skills in psychology. Using this approach, expert performers are compared to novices on domain relevant laboratory tasks in order to determine whether specific cognitive or perceptual processes are related to performance differences.

This volume will be of value to kinesiologists, sport psychologists, physical educators, and cognitive psychologists who are interested in a new perspective on the nature of motor skills. The majorit

Advances in Motor Development Research

Jane E. Clark

Amazon Price: $37.50 List Price: $37.50 In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. By: Ams Pr Inc Amazon Marketplace: 6 new & used starting at $28.49

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Motor Functions
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> Child Psychology -> Development
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> Child Psychology -> General AAS

Editorial Review:

A series aimed at researchers in motor development which includes traditional and experimental approaches and suggests that a transition may be occurring in motor development research. Twelve reports cover such topics as motor skills and sociocultural and methodological considerations. The primary purpose of the series, of which the present publication is the inaugural volume, is to supplement and support journals and annual reviews which report on similar topics. The editors recognize that motor development has evolved into a complex field which cuts across biological, behavioural, biomechanical and other subjects.

Control of Human Movement

Mark L. Latash

List Price: $56.00 By: Human Kinetics Publishers Amazon Marketplace: 6 new & used starting at $43.87

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Motor Functions
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Perception
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> General

Approaches to the Study of Motor Control and Learning (Advances in Psychology)

Amazon Price: $230.00 List Price: $230.00 Usually ships in 24 hours By: North Holland Amazon Marketplace: 19 new & used starting at $224.17

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Motor Functions
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Perception
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> Neuropsychology

Editorial Review:

Hardbound. During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic increase in interest in the study of motor control and learning. In this volume authors from a variety of backgrounds and theoretical perspectives review their research with particular emphasis on the methods and paradigms employed, and the future direction of their work. The book is divided into four main sections. The first section contains chapters examining general issues and trends in the movement behaviour field. The remaining three sections contain chapters from scientists working in three broadly defined areas of interest: coordination and control; visuo-motor processes; and movement disorders. Each section provides an overview of the different approaches and different levels of analysis being used to examine specific topics within the motor domain.

The Swimmer: An Integrated Computational Model of A Perceptual-motor System (Scientific Psychology Series)

William R. Uttal, Gary Bradshaw, Sriram Dayanand, Robb Lovell, Thomas Shepherd, Ramakrishna Kakarala, Kurt Skifsted, Greg Tupper

Amazon Price: $58.36 List Price: $79.95 Usually ships in 24 hours By: Lawrence Erlbaum Amazon Marketplace: 10 new & used starting at $3.70

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Motor Functions
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Perception
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> Experimental Psychology

Editorial Review:

This research monograph describes a large programming project in which an underwater organism, capable of perceiving, learning, deciding, and navigating, is computationally simulated. The developed computational model serves as a contemporary theory of perceptual-motor performance, embodying much of what is known about human vision and some of what is known about other cognitive processes. This artificial intelligence project has substantial contributions to make to the development of autonomous underwater vehicles. It also makes a specific theoretical statement about the organization and nature of organic perceptual motor systems that may be useful to psychologists, neuroscientists, and theoreticians in a number of other fields.

Motor Behavior: Programming, Control, and Acquisition

H. Heuer, U. Kleinbeck

List Price: $79.00 By: Springer-Verlag Amazon Marketplace: 7 new & used starting at $59.99

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Motor Functions
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Perception
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> General

Human Skills (Wiley Series on Studies in Human Performance)

List Price: $220.50 By: John Wiley & Sons Amazon Marketplace: 5 new & used starting at $0.69

Buy at Amazon.com

Browse similar items by category:
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Motor Functions
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> By Topic -> Perception
Subjects -> Health, Mind & Body -> Psychology & Counseling -> Cognitive