Recently added articles from Journal of Motor Behavior:

Spatial and temporal adaptations that accompany increasing catching performance during learning.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Mazyn, Liesbeth I.N. ... ABSTRACT. The authors studied changes in performance and kinematics during the acquisition of a l-handed catch. Participants were 8 women who took an intensive 2-week training program during which they evolved from poor catchers to sub-expert catchers. An increased temporal consistency, ...

Snoddy (1926) revisited: time scales of motor learning.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Stratton, Shannon M. ... ABSTRACT. The authors investigated the time scales of the learning of a mirror-tracing task to reexamine G. S. Snoddy's (1926) original claim and the received theoretical view (A. Newell & E S. Rosenbloom, 1981) that motor learning follows a power law. Adult participants (N = 16) learned ...

Examining action effects in the execution of a skilled soccer kick by using erroneous feedback.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Ford, Paul ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined the role of action effects (i.e., ball trajectory) during the performance of a soccer kick. Participants were 20 expert players who kicked a ball over a height barrier toward a ground-level target. The authors occluded participants' vision of the ball ...

Variation in coordination of a discrete multiarticular action as a function of skill level.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Chow, Jia Yi ... ABSTRACT. The authors investigated coordination modes that emerged as a function of the interaction between skill level and task constraints in a multiarticular kicking action. Five skilled, 5 intermediate, and 5 novice participants attempted to satisfy specific height and accuracy ...

A practice-specificity-based model of arousal for achieving peak performance.

Nov 01, 2007; Movahedi, Ahmadreza ... ABSTRACT. The authors propose a practice-specificity-based model of arousal for achieving peak performance. The study included 37 healthy male physical education students whom they randomly assigned to a high-arousal (n = 19) or low-arousal group (n = 18). To manipulate participants' level ...

Right-handers' reaching in contralateral hemispace: a kinematic observation.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Kim, Wondae ... ABSTRACT. C. Gabbard and C. Helbig (2004) found, when examining seated participants' limb selection for reaching and grasping in hemispace, that right-handers preferred to switch to the nondominant left arm for objects located approximately 20[degrees] horizontally from body midline ...

Shoulder joint position sense improves with external load.(Report)

Nov 01, 2007; Suprak, David N. ... ABSTRACT. Joint position sense (JPS) is important in the maintenance of optimal movement coordination of limb segments in functional activities. Researchers have shown that the sensitivity of musculotendinous mechanoreceptors increases as muscle activation levels increase. In the present ...