Wood and Ging (1991) The role of interference and task similarity on the acquisition, retention, and transfer of simple motor skills

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The role of interference and task similarity on the acquisition, retention, and transfer of simple motor skills

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CONTRIBUTORS:

	Author:	Wood, C. A.
	Author:	Ging, C. A.

JOURNAL:

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (RQES), 62(1), 18 - 26.

YEAR:

1991

PUB TYPE:

Journal Article

SUBJECT(S):

interference; skill; learning; retention; transfer-of-learning

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No discipline assigned

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LANGUAGE:

English

PUB ID:

103-342-165 (Last edited on 2002/02/27 18:44:08 US/Mountain)

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ABSTRACT:
The aim of the present study was to determine if two levels of task similarity influenced acquisition, retention, and transfer performance of three simple motor skills. Sixty right-handed subjects were randomly assigned to one of five (n=12) experimental conditions. Each subject performed 72 trials during acquisition. Twenty-four trials were recorded for each movement task. Following a 5-min unfilled retention interval, subjects performed 4 trials on each task before completing 12 transfer trials of a novel movement. Contextual interference effects for acquisition and retention were supported for low but not high similarity tasks. Further, the results suggest that a different memory representation exists for high and low similarity tasks.

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