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Motor Control Test 2
Motor Control Test 2
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Undergraduate 4
10/04/2010

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Successful performance depends on our ability to use what?
Definition
Feedback
Term
The quality of the feedback mechanisms is influenced by what?
Definition
Experience
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Influence of errors on performance depends on how well developed what is?
Definition
Feedback Mechanisms
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Why is it important for Physical Educators to understand the complexities of the somatosensory system?
Definition

-Can use cutaneous and proprioceptive cues to facilitate skill learning

 

-Can increase learner's awareness of where the limbs are in space during movement

Term
Why is it important for Clinicians to understand the complexities of the somatosensory system?
Definition
Increases the accuracy of the diagnosis and quality of treatment.
Term
General Properties of Sensory Receptors and Afferent Pathways
Definition

Adequate Stimulation

-Intensity Coding

Sensory Adaptation

Term
What is Transduction?
Definition
Environmental Energy --> Electrical Impulses.
Term
Sensory receptors distributed throughout the body respond to particular kinds of sensory stimulation
Definition
Adequate Stimulation
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Property that enables us to distinguish between different sensations
Definition
Intensity Coding
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The intensity of a stimulus can be conveyed by what two mechanisms?
Definition

spatial summation

temporal summation

Term
The stronger the stimulus the larger the number of different sensory receptors that fire.
Definition
Spatial Summation
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The stimulated receptors are fired at a higher frequency.
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Temporal Summation
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The means by which we are able to block out irrelevant sensory information
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Sensory Adaptation
Term
Where does the first stage of integration occur?
Definition
Thalamus
Term

Where is Proprioceptive information carried to?

And this results in what?

Definition

The sensory areas of the cortex.

Result - Conscious awareness of sensations.

Term
Where does the Ultimate integration of sensory information occur?
Definition
The association areas of the cortex.
Term
Carries information about the position of muscles both directly and indirectly from the muscle spindles to the cerebellum.
Definition
Spinocerebellar Tract
Term
temperature and limb position.
Definition
Somesthesia
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What Primary receptors are involved in somesthesia?
Definition

-Cutaneous receptors

-Proprioceptors

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Cutaneous receptor stimulated by physical deformation or displacement of tissues.
Definition
Mechanoreceptor
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What are four types of Mechanoreceptors?
Definition

-Sensory Nerve Fibers

-Meissner's Corpuscles

-Merkel's Disks

-Pacinian Corpuscles

Term
Epithelial tissue/Touch & Pressure
Definition
Sensory Nerve Fibers
Term
Connective tissue sheaths & hairless portions of skin/Light touch
Definition
Meissner’s Corpuscles
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Near Meissner’s corpusles/ Constant contact
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Merkel’s Disks
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Deep Tissue, tendons, ligaments/Deep pressure
Definition
Pacinian Corpuscles
Term

Direct the learner’s attention to the appropriate cutaneous information provided by receptors.

ex - Feel your weight on your back foot

Definition
Cutaneous Cues
Term
Mechanoreceptors in muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints and the vestibular apparatus (inner ear).
Definition
Proprioceptors
Term
What muscles are muscle spindles found in?
Definition
All somatic muscles
Term
What is the most important proprioceptor?
Definition
Muscle Spindles
Term
What serves both sensory and motor function?
Definition
Muscle Spindles
Term
Higher number of spindles are found in muscles that do what?
Definition
Subserving fine movements
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What muscle fibers are used to produce muscular contraction?
Definition
Extrafusal
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What muscle fiber comprises the spindle?
Definition
Intrafusal
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The motor neurons to extrafusal muscle?
Definition
Alpha
Term
The motor neurons to intrafusal muscle?
Definition
Gamma
Term
The neurons with action potentials moving away from the spindle?
Definition
Afferent
Term
What signals absolute muscle length and the rate of change in muscle length and contributes to the automatic regulation of muscle length?
Definition
Muscle Spindles
Term
What detects muscle tension, rate and absolute amount, and is activated with active or passive lengthening?
Definition
Golgi Tendon Organ
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What tends to be inhibitory in nature, producing muscle relaxation, overrides spindles and is a protective mechanism?
Definition
Golgi Tendon Organs
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Where are joint receptors located?
Definition
Joint capsules and ligaments
Term
What kind of information do Join Receptors Provide?
Definition
Static position of a joint in space and endpoint positions of joints during active movement.
Term
Kinesthesis Definition
Definition
awareness
Term
What are 4 afferent sources of Kinesthesia?
Definition

-Muscle Spindles

-Golgi Tendon Organs

-Joint Receptors

-Cutaneous Receptors

Term
What serves as the first source of muscular force or effort?
Definition
Golgi Tendon Organs
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What serves as the preferred source of effort?
Definition
Corollary Discharge
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What are two types of cues?
Definition
Cutaneous and proprioceptive
Term
Direct attention and level of effort required
Definition
cutaneous and proprioceptive cues
Term
Body's Spatial positioning before, during and after.
Definition
Proprioception
Term

Orientation of the body to the surrounding environment

Visual and audio feedback

Definition
Exproprioception
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What are 3 functions of sensory feedback?
Definition

-Check for correctness

-Guides planning and modification

-Assists in learning or relearning

Term
What are the two visual systems?
Definition

-Focal : What

-Ambient : Where

Term
Identification of objects primarily in the center of the visual field.
Definition
focal system
Term
What part of the eye does the focal system involve and what type of light is it best suited for?
Definition
Involves the fovea of the eye, has high visual acuity and is best in bright light.
Term
Visual system that involves conscious thought?
Definition
Focal system
Term
What is the Ambient system used for and what type of light is it best suited for?
Definition
Used for subconscious thought, involves the entire retina and is best in dim light.
Term
The two visual systems work in _______ in most movement situations.
Definition
Parallel
Term
Two sac like dwellings consisting of: utricle, saccule, and three semicircular canals
Definition
Vestibular Apparatus
Term
Static and dynamic equilibrium and resolution of sensory conflicts.
Definition
Vestibular Apparatus
Term
What is the Utricle responsible for?
Definition
Horizontal acceleration of head.
Term
What is the Saccule responsible for?
Definition
Vertical acceleration of head.
Term
What are the Semicircular Canals responsible for?
Definition
Angular acceleration
Term
Equilibrium is both?
Definition
Static and Dynamic
Term
These are areas of the brain that have specific functions during planning/execution of an action
Definition
Neural task centers
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What is the Limbic system responsible for?
Definition
The decision to act
Term
What is the Association cortex responsible for?
Definition
What to do (the general plan)
Term
What is the Projection system responsible for?
Definition
How to do (adds the details)
Term
What is the Spinal system responsible for?
Definition
Execution (final details, control, modification)
Term
Besides the decision to act what else is the Limbic system responsible for?
Definition
Emotion, Motivation, and learning
Term
What areas of the brain are involved in the Limbic system?
Definition
Thalamus, Hypothalamus, amygdula, septal area, and hippocampus
Term
Analysis in the Limbic system is dependent on what?
Definition
Memory
Term
What type of input does the limbic system receive and analyze?
Definition
Sensory input and environmental input
Term
What part of the brain is involved in the Association cortex?
Definition
Frontal, Parietal, and Temporal lobes
Term
This Identifies, selects, and intertwines meaningful information for distribution to higher cortical levels?
Definition
The Association Cortex
Term
Where does the Association Cortex receive it's information from?
Definition
"other" areas of the CNS
Term
This identifies, selects and intertwines meaningful information for distribution to higher cortical levels.
Definition
The Association Cortex
Term
This adds details to the general plan.
Definition
The Projection System
Term
Provides detailed motor and sensory information to match the goal of the movement and the environmental demands.
Definition
The Projection System
Term
Parts of the brain involved in the Projection System
Definition
Basal ganglia, the cerebellum, and the motor cortex.
Term
Function cooperatively to guide goal-directed behavior.
Definition
Limbic system and the Association cortex
Term
What 3 things does Muscle Response Synergies do?
Definition

-Groups of muscles constrained to act as a single functional unit.

Reduces the number of degrees of freedom

Simplifies the decision-making process for the CNS

Term

-Type of action produced at the joint(s) crossed by the muscle response synergy

-The total number of synergies needed to generate enough force to produce the desired action.

Definition
2 Ways Muscle Response Synergies simplifies the decision-making process for the CNS
Term
What are two types of Spinal System Neurons?
Definition

-Alpha Motor Neurons

-Gamma Motor Neurons

Term

-Final pathway from CNS to skeletal muscle

-Organized into groups, or pools, within the spinal cord

-Function as teams to innervate groups of muscles

Definition

-Final pathway from CNS to skeletal muscle

-Organized into groups, or pools, within the spinal cord

-Function as teams to innervate groups of muscles

3 aspects of Alpha Motor Neurons
Term
What are 2 aspects of Gamma Motor Neurons?
Definition

-Pathway from brain to the muscle spindle

-Increase precision of control

Term
What is a Motor Unit?
Definition
One alpha motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it innervates
Term
What do smaller motor units increase?
Definition
Precision
Term
What do larger motor units increase?
Definition
Force
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Besides executing the plan of action the Spinal System does what to muscles?
Definition
Regulates the timing of muscles
Term
Alpha motor neurons to
Definition
Skeletal muscles
Term
Gamma motor neurons to
Definition
The muscle spindle
Term
Contains feedback loops - sampling the movement for comparison with the goal and the environment
Definition
The Spinal System
Term
The Spinal System provides post movement evaluation based on what?
Definition
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