The contribution of covariation to skill improvement is an ambiguous measure: Comment on Müller and Sternad (2004)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 246-249

  Smeets, Jeroen B J ^a   Louw, Stefan ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compensation; Goal oriented tasks; Learning; Motor control; Practice; Skill improvement; Variability decomposition

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; ORIENTATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33847209997     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.1.246     Document Type: Article

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