Why Professional Athletes Need a Prolonged Period of Warm-Up and Other Peculiarities of Human Motor Learning
Why Professional Athletes Need a Prolonged Period of Warm-Up and Other Peculiarities of Human Motor Learning
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DOI:
10.1080/00222895.2010.528262
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
Bizzi, Emilio
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作者:
Ajemian, Robert;D'Ausilio, Alessandro;Bizzi, Emilio
Professional athletes involved in sports that require the execution of fine motor skills must practice for a considerable length of time before competing in an event. Why is such practice necessary? Is it merely to warm-up the muscles, tendons, and ligaments, or does the athlete's sensorimotor network need to be constantly recalibrated? In this article, the authors present a point of view in which the human sensorimotor system is characterized by: (a) a high noise level and (b) a high learning rate at the synaptic level (which, because of the noise, does not equate to a high learning rate at the behavioral level). They argue that many heuristics of human skill learning, including the need for a prolonged period of warm-up in experts, follow from these assumptions.