KNR 257: Motor Learning

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KNR 257 Motor Learning

• Quick and dirty movement lab.

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Activity 1
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Activity 2

• Check this out...

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Activity 3

• Take a pencil/pen in your preferred (writing)
  hand. Make 50 dots on the page in front of you as
  close together as possible (if it looks like just
  one small dot when youve finished, then you
  pass!)
• Now try it with your eyes shut
• What happened?
• Why?

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Activity 4

• Get a partner (one of you must have a watch with
  seconds on it) call one of you Sammy, the
  other Bobby.
• Stand up.
• For each of following steps, dont start until
  you are comfortable, and stop before you fall
  over and damage yourself

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Activity 4

• Sammy lifts one leg off the floor, and stands on
  one leg. Bobby records how long Sammy manages to
  do this without touching a leg down, or moving
  the foot in contact with the floor (stop after 30
  seconds).
• Now Sammy tries it with eyes closed. Bobby again
  records the time.
• Now Sammy tries it with eyes shut and head back
  as far as it will go (looking at the ceiling).
  Bobby again records time.
• Switch places (Sammy becomes Bobby and vice
  versa). REPEAT stages C. to E.
• What do you notice about the times for the 3
  tasks? How would you explain this?

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Activity 5

• Look at the person sitting next to you
• Shut one eye
• Now move your head gently from side to side (a
  bit like an Indian folk dancer), while keeping
  your gaze fixed on the persons face
• Now keep your gaze on the person, but instead of
  moving your entire head, move just your eyeball
  by pushing it gently with your forefinger (touch
  your eye-lid, not your eye-ball)

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Activity 5

• In both cases you have moved your eye relative to
  the person you are looking at, but what you see
  is probably different in each case
• What difference do you see between the two
  examples, and how can you explain this?