I'm just getting started and need a good pair of running shoes. I've had problems with shin splints and tendonitis in the past, so I want to get a proper fit from someone who knows what they are doing, rather than just pulling a pair off the shelves at a dept. store.
Can anyone recommend a good runner's store in southern NH - preferably along the I-93 corridor?
Using a different experimental approach, psychologist Richard Held in the 1960s ran a series of experiments in which he upset the normal correlation between sensory inputs and motor outputs, with telling results.
In one case, human subjects practiced strolling a winding path while wearing goggles that distorted their vision. Subjects in a second group wore the goggles while being conveyed down the path in a wheelchair.
Those who walked-those who engaged the environment actively and received sensory feedback from their self-initiated movements-subsequently scored higher on tests of visually guided tasks than did those who were conveyed passively.
More manipulative experiments with animals produced similar findings.
Held's canonical work can be found described in any general psychology textbook."