Brain
The part of a neuron which sends signals to other neurons or a target tissue.
What is an axon?
These theories suggest that a limited amount of sensory information are selected for further processing, while the rest are discarded.
What are filter (or bottleneck) theories?
Externally presented information about the outcome of a movement, usually in relation to the task goal.
What is knowledge of results?
This refers to the flow of sensory information towards the central nervous system.
What is afferent flow of information?
This allows experts to perform a movement without consciously thinking about how to perform the movement.
What is automaticity?
Along with the supplementary motor area, this area of the brain is involved in organizing sequences of movements.
What is the premotor cortex?
This stable gaze of a critical feature of the environment is prevalent in experts.
What is the quiet eye?
Practice schedule with relatively long rest between sessions.
What is distributed practice?
This is the light sensitive tissue in the back of the eye.
What is the retina?
The capability of the individual that is a determinant of a person’s potential for the performance of specific motor skills.
What is motor ability?
This non-cortical structure is involved in balance and sensorimotor adaptation.
What is the cerebellum?
A common experimental procedure used to investigate attention-limit issues.
What is the dual task paradigm?
Feedback only given after a certain number of trials.
What is summary feedback?
When we rotate our head to see who has called our name, these structures provide information about the rotational movement.
What are semicircular canals?
This type of practice is effortful and highly structured.
What is deliberate practice?
This hypokinetic disease is caused by the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra.
What is Parkinson’s disease?
This type of attentional focus is appropriate for closed skills and open skills that change in predictable ways.
What is narrow external focus?
This type of practice session involves executing the same movement component over and over again.
What is blocked practice?
The excitation or inhibition of these structures in the ear depends on the direction of the bend of the head.
What are hair cells?
This theory suggests that an elite swimmer isn’t necessary an elite runner.
What is the specificity of motor abilities hypothesis?
This pathway of the basal ganglia facilitates movement as the thalamus sends excitatory signals to the motor cortex.
What is the direct pathway?
An example of this factor that influences our attentional capacity is shifting your attention toward a conversation where someone said your name.
What are enduring dispositions?
This type of practice is for motor skills with low complexity and high organization.
What is whole practice?
Half of the axons of photoreceptors cross over here on their way to the thalamus.
What is the optic chiasm?
Experts use this technique to group together knowledge so that the information is more easily remembered and accessible.
What is chunking?