Combination of lectures, exercises, guided lab activities (App Inventor)
• Introduction (wk 1). Levels of description of movement: kinematic, kinetic, muscle mechanics, physiology. Overview of movement analysis techniques. Reminder of the physiological basis of movement, perception and cognition. Neuroanatomy of the sensorimotor system. Motor control theories. • Muscle mechanics and control (wk 2-3). Hill’s model of muscle force generation. The size principle. Muscle fatigue. Electromyography and EMG-related measures of performance. • Single-joint neuromechanics (wk 4). Joint kinematics, joint dynamics, agonist and antagonist muscles, the motor servo, neuromuscular viscoelasticity. • Multi-joint movements (wk 5-6). Kinematics: trajectories, joint rotations, forward and inverse kinematics, Jacobians. Dynamics: equations of motion of kinematic chains, mechanical impedance. Examples: arm movements and manipulation; orofacial control. • Computational motor control (wk 7-8). Trajectory formation. Dynamics control. Multisensory integration and Sensorimotor integration. Feedforward and feedback control modalities. • Motor learning (wk 9-10). Sensorimotor adaptation to kinematic/dynamic disturbances. Computational models of adaptation. Motor skill learning. Computational models of skill learning • Movement kinetics (wk 11-12). Case studies in locomotion: gait, running, cycling, swimming. Energy-related performance measurements: metabolic energy consumption. • App Design Lab (lab activity). Four guided lab activities plus individual project work
Ricevimento: on demand, by e-mail to: vittorio.sanguineti@unige.it or mobile phone at: 3292104393. Teacher office: via All’Opera Pia 13, building E, fourth floor. Office direct phone number: 010-3536487
VITTORIO SANGUINETI (President)
MAURA CASADIO
MARCO MASSIMO FATO
MOTOR CONTROL AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
• Written examination (weight 50%) • Project work (individuals or couples, weight 50%): using App Inventor, develop a smartphone/tablet app for monitoring some form of user’s perceptual or motor performance
