Motor Learning and Motor Development as a Motor Competence Problem Throughout Lifespan

Abstract

Motor learning and motor development are processes dealing with motor behavior changes through time. In fact, both phenomena are be distinguished when some new behavior is overt in observable motor actions. In motor development, the changes are associated with given lifetime periods and in the motor learning the changes are associated with some specific practice experience. Still, for both phenomena, it is not enough to perform a new action, but such action must to meet it aim reliably, i.e., the performer must be frequently successful, even if there are demands challenging him/ her. Thus, motor learning and motor development deal with the motor skills acquisition and/or their adjustments, in an elaborative and incremental open-ended trajectory throughout lifespan [1].