1 - Skill Acquisition: An Event Approach with Special Reference to Searching for the Optimum of a Function of Several Variables

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This chapter provides an overview on skill acquisition. In reference to the nature of the actor, the relationships among muscles are sufficiently plastic so that within limits actors are able to constrain or organize their musculature into different systems. On this perspective, learning a skill involves discovering an optimal self-organization. In reference to the nature of skills, skills have structure and discovering an optimal self-organization is in reference to those variables of stimulation corresponding to environmental and bio kinematic relations that specify the essential features of the skill the actor is to perform. The useful skill-related information must be discovered, the actor must engage certain search methods that reveal the useful information to him. These search methods must be compatible with the actor; that is, they must be compatible with, for example, real-world mechanical and temporal constraints that natural actors must obey. In seeking an explanation of anything, it is important that the forms of theoretical and investigatory attention be a domain of entities and functions that is optimal to the particular problem under investigation.

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