Motor skill learning in the middle-aged: Limited development of motor chunks and explicit sequence knowledge
| Autor: | Luis Jiménez, Elian de Kleine, Marit F L Ruitenberg, Willem B. Verwey, Elger L. Abrahamse |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Male Aging Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Aptitude Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Serial Learning 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Reaction Time Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Motor skill Sequence (medicine) media_common Cognitive science Psychological research 05 social sciences Age Factors General Medicine Associative learning Knowledge Motor Skills Independence (mathematical logic) Original Article Female Sequence learning METIS-279571 Psychology Photic Stimulation Psychomotor Performance 030217 neurology & neurosurgery IR-83317 Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological research = Psychologische Forschung, 75(5), 406-422. Springer Psychological Research |
| ISSN: | 0340-0727 |
| Popis: | The present study examined whether middle-aged participants, like young adults, learn movement patterns by preparing and executing integrated sequence representations (i.e., motor chunks) that eliminate the need for external guidance of individual movements. Twenty-four middle-aged participants (aged 55-62) practiced two fixed key press sequences, one including three and one including six key presses in the discrete sequence production task. Their performance was compared with that of 24 young adults (aged 18-28). In the middle-aged participants motor chunks as well as explicit sequence knowledge appeared to be less developed than in the young adults. This held especially with respect to the unstructured 6-key sequences in which most middle-aged did not develop independence of the key-specific stimuli and learning seems to have been based on associative learning. These results are in line with the notion that sequence learning involves several mechanisms and that aging affects the relative contribution of these mechanisms. |
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