How Do We Learn? (more Detailed) Flashcards
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What is a motor skill?
Set of Process associated with practice leading to permanent changes in capacity of movement skill
What happens during a motor skill?
Neutrons are fired from the primary motor cortex to muscles. Contracting muscles, causing a movement.
What are the main regions of a neuron’s pathway?
- Nucleus
- Dendrite
- Axon
- Synapse
How does a neutron get from the tips of the dendrites down to the synapses?
Neurons go down an action potential from the dendrite down the axon to the synapse where it goes through something called a synaptic cleft (electric gradient)
What is the primary motor cortex?
The primary motor cortex is a brain region that in humans is located in the dorsal portion of the frontal lobe. It works in association with other motor areas including premotor cortex, the supplementary motor area, posterior parietal cortex, and several subcortical brain regions, to plan and execute movements.
How does the primary motor correct function?
The output area: neuron’s go to the spinal cord which creat movement
What is the pre motor cortex?
It is where the motor program resides
How are skills stored in the brain?
Neurons via primary motor cortex and pre motor cortex
What is the different between succession and failure of a movement skill?
Successful skill fire the “right neurons”
Failed skil Fire the “wrong neurons”
Where does the motor neuron connect?
To the muscles
Where does the motor sensory neurons connect?
To the organs for sensory
Where do the inter neurons connect?
Thy are connected to other neurons - they also take yo vast amount of the human body
What is Hebb’s rule?
“Neurons that fire together, wire together”
- from a learning perspective, the goal of the system is to increase its he strength of the neural connections that are effective.
What happens if we learn a sports skill the wrong way?
When a sports skill is learned the wrong way, the neuro connections of that skill will be strengthened, therefore making it much harder to break that skill of need be.
What is LTP?
Long term potential
Why are skills strengthen, whether it were the right or wrong skills?
The brain likes to use the strongest neuropathways, therefore it will be very difficult to changed a developed skill.
What is the classic definition of learning?
Changes in the internal processes that are reflected by relatively stable changes in performance
What is performance?
The behavioural act of performing a skill at a specific time and in a specific situation.
What is motor performance?
“What you see”
What is motor learning?
“Internal changes”
What is the relationship between performance and learning?
Learning may be inferred from performance HOWEVER, performance may not be an indicator of learning (ie, you could get lucky)
In practice, how do we refer to the strengths of a connection?
We refer to them in terms of “weight and value”
What is one way to strengthen neuro connections?
Feedback
How do we learn?
Repetition
