Human Movement Science 32 (2013) 1083–1085
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Human Movement Science
Editorial
Motor Control and Human Skill
This special issue of Human Movement Science comprises a collection of nine papers from the 10th Motor Control & Human Skill Conference held in Mandurah, Western Australia between the 10th November and 2nd December, 2011. This meeting was held exactly 20 years since the late Professor Denis Glencross organized the inaugural Motor Control & Human Skill Research Workshop in 1991 to provide a forum for an Australian interest group that was formed at the Motor Neurosciences Symposium held at Collingwood in Ontario, Canada in 1988. The inaugural conference comprised 16 national and international experts in the field of motor control, and as a result of this successful meeting Professor Glencross established this meeting as a biennial conference which became an important gathering for both new and established researchers renowned for their research endeavors in the area of motor control and human skill. Following the sudden death of Professor Glencross in 1994, this event continued under the guidance of Professor Jan Piek and colleagues throughout Australia with the support of the Research Centre for Applied Psychology at Curtin University. The conference is aimed at examining both theoretical and applied research from disciplines such as psychology, human movement, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, neurology, and kinesiology. Such a broad range of interests produces many different perspectives to the understanding of the coordination and control of movement. In particular, it provides a forum for the analysis of the diverse theoretical approaches employed in the study of motor control, and the application of these theories to the investigation of such areas as elite performance, motor development and motor disability. Contents The majority of the papers in this series have a developmental theme, with many of the papers focusing on motor disability in childhood. The first paper by Piek and colleagues describes the impact of an intervention program, ‘Animal Fun’, designed to enhance the motor ability and social skills of 4 to 6 year old children. In their discussion paper, Pannekoek et al. describe a model to explain motivation for physical activity in pre-adolescent children. Rigoli et al. examine the relationship between visual working memory, and fine and gross motor ability in a group of typically developing children and children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. Poor motor performance was also investigated by Chivers et al. who questioned whether a poor performance on some motor skill tests may be confounded by overweight or obesity rather than poor motor competence. In the next paper, Wilson and Hyde investigated how online control develops rapidly in childhood by exploring age-related changes, using a double step reaching task. Age-related changes were also investigated by Smits-Engelsman and Wilson who investigated how the relationship between motor imagery and fine motor control changes with age. A paper by Hands et al. examined the stability of the psychometric
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properties of the McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development using longitudinal data for youth aged between 10 and 17 years. This paper was inadvertently published by Elsevier in an earlier edition of Human Movement Science (Volume 32, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages 485–497) but is reprinted here to preserve the integrity of the special issue. The final two papers move away from the developmental focus. Morris and Lay investigated the commonly held view that the trunk muscle transversus abdominis is controlled independently from the global trunk muscles, and provided evidence to suggest that this was not the case. Finally, Honarvar and Nakashima used a dynamic model to evaluate the risk of initiating a fall at different postures, an important contribution in relation to those at high risk of falls such as the elderly.
Acknowledgments We would like to take this opportunity to thank each of our guest reviewers, who reviewed the manuscripts submitted for the special issue:
Tracy Alloway, University of North Florida, USA Dennis Anderson, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA Woei-Nan Bair, University of Maryland, USA Anna Barnett, Oxford Brookes University, UK Rezaul Begg, Victoria University, Australia Brad Bennett, University of Virginia, USA Raoul Bongers, UMCG, Netherlands Shannon Bredin, University of British Columbia, Canada Max Bulsara, University of Notre Dame, Australia John Cairney, McMaster University, Canada Paola Chivers, University of Notre Dame, Australia Wouter Cools, VUB, Belgium Susan Crawford, University of Calgary, Canada Jennepher Downs, Curtin University, Australia Jacques Duysens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Linda Fetters, University of Southern California, USA John A. Hay, Brock University, Canada Florian Kagerer, Michigan State University, USA Robert Kane, Curtin University, Australia Dawne Larkin, University of Western Australia, Australia Gwyn N. Lewis, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Melissa Licari, University of Western Australia, Australia David Livesey, Sydney University, Australia Steven Morrison, Old Dominion University, USA Martijn Muller, University of Michigan, USA Charalambos Papaxanthis, Université de Bourgogne, France James Phillips, University of New South Wales, Australia Mandy Plumb, Oxford Brookes University, UK Annette Raynor, Edith Cowan University, Australia John Saunders, Australian Catholic University, Australia Beverley Ulrich, University of Michigan, USA Michael G. Wade, University of Minnesota, USA Jacqueline Williams, University of New England, Australia Fred Yeadon, Loughborough University, UK
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We also wish to acknowledge the financial support of the School of Psychology & Speech Pathology and Research Centre for Applied Psychology at Curtin University, and the donation of books from Human Kinetics for the student prizes. Thanks also to Peter Beek and Jennifer Miranda for their assistance with this Special Issue. Guest editors Jan Piek Beth Hands Natalie Gasson Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Human Movement Science
Editorial
Motor Control and Human Skill
This special issue of Human Movement Science comprises a collection of nine papers from the 10th Motor Control & Human Skill Conference held in Mandurah, Western Australia between the 10th November and 2nd December, 2011. This meeting was held exactly 20 years since the late Professor Denis Glencross organized the inaugural Motor Control & Human Skill Research Workshop in 1991 to provide a forum for an Australian interest group that was formed at the Motor Neurosciences Symposium held at Collingwood in Ontario, Canada in 1988. The inaugural conference comprised 16 national and international experts in the field of motor control, and as a result of this successful meeting Professor Glencross established this meeting as a biennial conference which became an important gathering for both new and established researchers renowned for their research endeavors in the area of motor control and human skill. Following the sudden death of Professor Glencross in 1994, this event continued under the guidance of Professor Jan Piek and colleagues throughout Australia with the support of the Research Centre for Applied Psychology at Curtin University. The conference is aimed at examining both theoretical and applied research from disciplines such as psychology, human movement, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, neurology, and kinesiology. Such a broad range of interests produces many different perspectives to the understanding of the coordination and control of movement. In particular, it provides a forum for the analysis of the diverse theoretical approaches employed in the study of motor control, and the application of these theories to the investigation of such areas as elite performance, motor development and motor disability. Contents The majority of the papers in this series have a developmental theme, with many of the papers focusing on motor disability in childhood. The first paper by Piek and colleagues describes the impact of an intervention program, ‘Animal Fun’, designed to enhance the motor ability and social skills of 4 to 6 year old children. In their discussion paper, Pannekoek et al. describe a model to explain motivation for physical activity in pre-adolescent children. Rigoli et al. examine the relationship between visual working memory, and fine and gross motor ability in a group of typically developing children and children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. Poor motor performance was also investigated by Chivers et al. who questioned whether a poor performance on some motor skill tests may be confounded by overweight or obesity rather than poor motor competence. In the next paper, Wilson and Hyde investigated how online control develops rapidly in childhood by exploring age-related changes, using a double step reaching task. Age-related changes were also investigated by Smits-Engelsman and Wilson who investigated how the relationship between motor imagery and fine motor control changes with age. A paper by Hands et al. examined the stability of the psychometric
0167-9457/$ - see front matter Ó 2013 Published by Elsevier B.V. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2013.11.003
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properties of the McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development using longitudinal data for youth aged between 10 and 17 years. This paper was inadvertently published by Elsevier in an earlier edition of Human Movement Science (Volume 32, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages 485–497) but is reprinted here to preserve the integrity of the special issue. The final two papers move away from the developmental focus. Morris and Lay investigated the commonly held view that the trunk muscle transversus abdominis is controlled independently from the global trunk muscles, and provided evidence to suggest that this was not the case. Finally, Honarvar and Nakashima used a dynamic model to evaluate the risk of initiating a fall at different postures, an important contribution in relation to those at high risk of falls such as the elderly.
Acknowledgments We would like to take this opportunity to thank each of our guest reviewers, who reviewed the manuscripts submitted for the special issue:
Tracy Alloway, University of North Florida, USA Dennis Anderson, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA Woei-Nan Bair, University of Maryland, USA Anna Barnett, Oxford Brookes University, UK Rezaul Begg, Victoria University, Australia Brad Bennett, University of Virginia, USA Raoul Bongers, UMCG, Netherlands Shannon Bredin, University of British Columbia, Canada Max Bulsara, University of Notre Dame, Australia John Cairney, McMaster University, Canada Paola Chivers, University of Notre Dame, Australia Wouter Cools, VUB, Belgium Susan Crawford, University of Calgary, Canada Jennepher Downs, Curtin University, Australia Jacques Duysens, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Linda Fetters, University of Southern California, USA John A. Hay, Brock University, Canada Florian Kagerer, Michigan State University, USA Robert Kane, Curtin University, Australia Dawne Larkin, University of Western Australia, Australia Gwyn N. Lewis, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Melissa Licari, University of Western Australia, Australia David Livesey, Sydney University, Australia Steven Morrison, Old Dominion University, USA Martijn Muller, University of Michigan, USA Charalambos Papaxanthis, Université de Bourgogne, France James Phillips, University of New South Wales, Australia Mandy Plumb, Oxford Brookes University, UK Annette Raynor, Edith Cowan University, Australia John Saunders, Australian Catholic University, Australia Beverley Ulrich, University of Michigan, USA Michael G. Wade, University of Minnesota, USA Jacqueline Williams, University of New England, Australia Fred Yeadon, Loughborough University, UK
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We also wish to acknowledge the financial support of the School of Psychology & Speech Pathology and Research Centre for Applied Psychology at Curtin University, and the donation of books from Human Kinetics for the student prizes. Thanks also to Peter Beek and Jennifer Miranda for their assistance with this Special Issue. Guest editors Jan Piek Beth Hands Natalie Gasson Perth, Western Australia, Australia
