A learning approach and associated experiments are described that allow robotic devices to learn the relationship between control actions and sensory feedback, to acquire skills, and to adapt to a changing environment. The approach frames the motor skill learning problem as one involving the co-evolution of perceptual and actuation structures. A memorybased learning approach is taken and a Cach...

An advanced learning system is described for developing intermediate level ice hockey skills. We focus on perceptual, cognitive and team-strategy using a combination of mixed representational media that emphasise translation between the representations. Use data is collected from trainee players and a prototype is developed and illustrated. Tutorial and analysis modes are described and followed...

Research findings suggest that experience and cognitive strategies contribute to successful performance during perceptual-motor tasks. This article critically reviews selected literature on the effects of information-processing skills, preferred movement time, experience, and task difficulty on performance during coincident timing tasks. Theoretical information and research findings are discuss...

Turner syndrome (TS) is associated with a characteristic neurocognitive profile which includes average to low full scale intelligence quotient (FSIQ) with a significant discrepancy between verbal IQ (VIQ) and performance IQ (PIQ) [1].They have average verbal skills but weaker non verbal skills like visuospatial, perceptual, processing speed and executive functioning leading to problems in acade...

This article contains data related to multicultural education and diagnostic information profiling preliminary findings. It includes the responses of 253 students. The data consists of six sections, i) culture: race, ethnicity, language and identity; ii) learning preferences: physiological and perceptual; iii) cognitive learning styles: physical, emotional and mental; iv) creativity skills and ...

The quiet eye is a perceptual skill associated with expertise and superior performance; however, little is known about the transfer of quiet eye across domains. We attempted to replicate previous skill-based differences in quiet eye and investigated whether transfer of motor and perceptual skills occurs between similar tasks. Throwing accuracy and quiet eye duration for skilled and less-skilled...

Rules Versus Reflexlike Productions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 Neural Substrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458 Explicit Versus Implicit Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 Individual Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

BACKGROUND Little is known with regard to how acupuncture skills are optimally taught, learnt and evaluated despite clear evidence that technical skill acquisition is important to trainee success in health professions. OBJECTIVES This study reports an investigation of the sensorimotor aspects of the acupuncture lifting-thrusting skill in order to highlight the important kinematic and kinetic ...

The Test of Visual-Perceptual Skills (TVPS) was used to determine if children with cerebral palsy demonstrated problems in visual perception on a motor-free visual perception test. Twenty-four children with cerebral palsy and 24 normal children, all of normal intelligence, were given the TVPS. Results showed that children with cerebral palsy attained significantly lower mean perceptual quotient...

The purpose of this research was to compare the effects of drug therapy, perceptual motor training and a combination of drug therapy and perceptual motor training on gross and fine motor skills of 6 to 12 year-old Iranian attention deficit hyperactivity disorder children. Thirty-six attention deficit hyperactivity disorder children currently under treatment in three Iranian psychological-neurol...