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Wolters Kluwer
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HEALTH PROFESSIONS
SPORTS & EXERCISE SCIENCE
Motor Behavior: Connecting Mind and Body for Optimal
Performance
Jeffrey C. Ives, PhD
February 2013 / Hardbound / 7 x 10 / Approx. 384 pp.
978-1-4511-7589-9
DESCRIPTION
Ives’
Motor Behavior
takes a functional approach to motor control and learning that is in keeping with the
modern use and understanding of these topics. This title is truly unique in that it goes beyond just explaining
motor control and motor learning to help students understand how these disciplines interact with each other
to affect behavior. Throughout the text, the interaction between the mind and the body and how these come
together in the context of practice, training, and performance is presented.
FEATURES
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Concise approach emphasizing “need to know” information that students will apply as practicing clinicians
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Application and Integration of Motor Learning and Motor Control in Unit 3, making the text unique among
all currently available texts on the subject
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Applications included throughout the book showing how concepts introduced play out in the real world
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Functional approach to motor learning and control
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Unique photos and illustrations to reinforce motor behavior and motor learning concepts by placing them
in a real-world context, an approach that brings the subject to life for students