Riding the bicycle to work, walking up the stairs to the apartment, taking a book from the shelf, and playing the violin are all examples of motor activities, which are signified by the planning of future goal states, the coordination of different limbs and various whole-body postures, and the regulation of muscle forces during the
The eyes perceive spatial information with full acuity when light falls on a small region at the back of the retina called the fovea. Because of the small area of the fovea, the area over which we are able to see clearly is only about 2° to 3° of visual angle. Visual angle indicates the
Various laws of movement learning and control have been proposed on the basis of research. In this entry, the focus is on three of the most firmly established of these laws: the law of practice, Fitts’s law, and Hick’s law. These laws are of interest to sport and exercise psychologists because they specify relatively simple