Complexity of Change: Motor Behavior and Biomechanics Research in Real Life Behaviors
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 1036
Special Issue Editors
Interests: motor learning; motor development; dynamic systems
Interests: sports sciences; biomechanics; swimming
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Dear Colleagues,
From a child learning to throw a ball to a stroke patient demonstrating again the capacity to walk independently, the complexity of change in motor behavior cannot be overstated. Unfortunately, the richness and difficulty of understanding how the many degrees-of-freedom of our motor system change towards states of more functionality and complexity have been neglected. Either because of the belief that simplistic experiments could grasp essential aspects or to emphasize other levels of analyses (brain imaging). Currently, the field has recognized the need to understand the dynamics of change through the integration of different areas of knowledge that characterize behavior at the right level of analysis. The present Special Issue will present new perspectives and evidence on how humans deal with the problems of many degrees of freedom in motor learning.
We invite papers on the topics of:
- Motor Learning;
- Motor Development;
- Rehabilitation;
- Sport Sciences;
- Aging.
Dr. Matheus Maia Pacheco
Prof. Dr. João Vilas-Boas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- motor learning
- skill acquisition
- motor development
- sport sciences
- rehabilitation
- aging
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