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PHYSIOLOGY UNIT B
cod. 1000284

Academic year 2008/09
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Fisiologia (BIO/09)
Field
Biomedico
Type of training activity
Characterising
8 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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Integrated course unit module: PHYSIOLOGY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY OF MOTOR CONTROL

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Learning objectives

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The knowledge of the theories on the processes by which the Central Nervous System plans and controls the execution of the movement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Movement planning and the control of movement execution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Triphasic pattern of EMG<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The force-time function<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Muscle mechanics and theory of the equilibrium point<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The isochrony principle and space-time invariants<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The principle of the maximal smoothness and of the rectilinear trajectories<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The visuo-motor integration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The coding of space in the motor control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The role of the visual feedback in the movement control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The Fitts’s law<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The theory of the optic flow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The role of the somaesthetic information in the movement control<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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