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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019

Search Strategies in the Perceptual-Motor Workspace and the Acquisition of Coordination, Control, and Skill.

Matheus M Pacheco, Charley W Lafe, Karl M Newell

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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Matheus M PachecoMotor Behavior Laboratory (LACOM), School of Physical Education and Sport, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Charley W LafeMotor Behavior Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States.
Karl M NewellMotor Behavior Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States.

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Abstract

In this paper we re-visit and elaborate-on the theoretical framework of learning as searching within the perceptual-motor workspace for a solution to the task. The central focus is the nature of search strategies to locate and create stable equilibrium regions in the perceptual-motor workspace and how these strategies relate to the emergent movement forms in the acquisition of coordination, control, and skill. In the ecological theory of perception and action, the enhanced stability of performance occurs through the attunement of the perceptual systems to the task dynamics together with modifications of action as task and intrinsic dynamics cooperate and/or compete. Thus, through practice in this search process, individuals adapt to the pick-up of task relevant perceptual variables and change their movement form according to the stability of the performed action and its outcome in relation to the task demands. Contemporary experimental findings have revealed features of the search process given the interaction of individual intrinsic dynamics in the context of task requirements and principles that drive the change - e.g., exploitation of more tolerant task-space solutions and emergence of compensatory mechanisms. Finally, we outline how the search strategy framework relates to traditional learning-related phenomena: including the dynamical pathways of learning, learning curves, factors of learning, individuality, motor development, and sport and rehabilitation interventions.

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coordinative structuresdynamical systemsecological psychologyexplorationindividual-differencesintrinsic dynamicsmotor learning

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PMCPMC6702327

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