The learning of two similar complex movement sequences: Does practice insulate a sequence from interference?

Human Movement Science

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 873-887

  Panzer, Stefan ^a   Shea, Charles H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chunking; Proactive interference; Retroactive interference; Sequence learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PROACTIVE INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTIVE INHIBITION; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SERIAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56049121191     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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