When practice does not make perfect: Well-practiced handwriting interferes with the consolidation phase gains in learning a movement sequence

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 499-508

  Balas, Meirav ^a,b   Roitenberg, Neta ^b   Giladi, Nir ^b,c   Karni, Avi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Handwriting; Interference; Memory consolidation; Motor learning; Motor memory; Motor representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRITING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34147133356     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0757-3     Document Type: Article

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