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Takuya Ito – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The human brain is a flexible information processing system. Across a range of simple and complex tasks, such as walking across the street to playing basketball, the brain transforms sensory information from the environment into corresponding motor actions. This sensory input to motor output transformation likely requires a sequence of complex…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Neurosciences, Perceptual Motor Learning
Juliana Otoni Parma – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation describes a program of research encompassing three studies that focused on examining the effects of enhanced expectancies and perceptions of success on motor learning. OPTIMAL theory (Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2016) proposes that practice manipulations that enhance a learner's expectations for future successful outcomes lead to…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Memory, Goal Orientation, Learning Motivation