Summaries
ACTION CONTROL
Jurjen Bosga
Jurjen Bosga is the second keynote outcomes and then activates our speaker of the night. His lecture motor system. is about flexibility, action control and managing redundancy. The Jurjen provides the audience audience listens attentively while with multiple examples of action he explains that we have excess control processes of athletes, resources, or redundancy, in many and compares them with dancers. parts of our body. This property There are many similarities, but allows us to perform the same task also many differences. He explains in many different possible ways. the mirror neuron system as an This improves our flexibility and important neural network system reliability in our motor system, which allows for perception-action which is needed to perform coupling. The included short activities. video’s makes his lecture lively. The knowledge provided by Jurjen He explains thoroughly, but could be beneficial for teachers simplified, how the actions control and dancers, as it shows how process of the human body works. specific processes of the human It is a combination of perception, body functions under different cognitive and planning whereby circumstances. The attendees our brain considers which actions seemed to understand the should be taken, what the matter, as no questions were consequences are and the possible raised afterwards. NCPA mini symposium ‘Ready to move?‘
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