MOTOR LEARNING AND FEEDBACK: A LITERATURE REVIEW

The feedback provided during the execution of a skill exposes an important role in the performance and learning of it. There is a great variety of research conducted on the topic of feedback, the aim of this research was to provide the reader with an overview of the use of feedback in the area of motor learning and highlight the recent findings. Feedback is a general concept that is used to describe the information that is given to the learner in relation to the performance of the motor skill to be learned. In the first part of the literature review the different types of feedback that have been studied recently are described. In the second part of the review a classification of the types of feedback in provided and a summary of the representative research of the different types of feedback and its effectiveness is presented. Finally, a brief conclusion and recommendations were presented.