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Podcast: The Perception & Action Podcast
Episode: 43 – P&A Court II: Low vs High Variability in Motor Control & Learning
Description: Should the goal of practice be to reduce movement variability to as low a value as possible? Is high variability the signature of an unskilled performer or a necessity for effective learning? Â Articles/links: A schema theory of discrete motor skill learning Feedback-Induced Variability and the Learning of Generalized Motor Programs Optimizing generalized motor program and parameter learning Variability in baseball pitching biomechanics among various levels of competition What variability tells us about movement expertise The bliss (not the problem) of motor abundance (n...