Learning to play the Violin: Motor control by freezing, not freeing degrees of freedom

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 243-252

  Konczak, Jürgen ^a   Vander Velden, Heidi ^a   Jaeger, Lukas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bernstein; Development; Expert; Motor control; Motor learning; Music

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOULDER;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SHOULDER JOINT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66749094707     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JMBR.41.3.243-252     Document Type: Article

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