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Qiao, Mu – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2021
The development of performance, such as learning a new motor skill, can be represented in a performance curve. The shape of the performance curve is both of theoretical and practical relevance. Here, the author studied the interday performance of juggling over a period of 17 days in 112 college students. The results showed that 60% of participants…
Descriptors: Performance, Physical Activities, Psychomotor Skills, Perceptual Motor Learning
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Andreasson, Jesper – Ethnography and Education, 2014
The aim of this article is to describe and analyse learning processes among bodybuilders in bodybuilding environments, focusing on the ways activities form the basis for incorporation of both physical and cultural knowledge. Emanating from an ethnographic study, the arguments are based on a constructionist approach to knowledge. The result…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Human Body, Physiology, Ethnography
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Puretz, Susan L. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1983
The effects of practice on the bilateral transfer of complex dance movement patterns were studied by having subjects learn two sequences under eight different conditions. Results indicate that teachers have been correct in expecting students to transfer movements bilaterally (from one side to the other) but should teach to the nonpreferred side.…
Descriptors: College Students, Dance Education, Human Body, Kinesthetic Perception