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J Exp Psychol Appl. 2002 Dec;8(4):222-32.

Models of performance in learning multisegment movement tasks: consequences for acquisition, retention, and judgments of learning.

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  • 1Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. domsimon@nmsu.edu

Abstract

Participants learned different keystroke patterns, each requiring that a key sequence be struck in a prescribed time. Trials of a given pattern were either blocked or interleaved randomly with trials on the other patterns and before each trial modeled timing information was presented that either matched or mismatched the movement to be executed next. In acquisition, blocked practice and matching models supported better performance than did random practice and mismatching models. In retention, however, random practice and mismatching models were associated with superior learning. Judgments of learning made during practice were more in line with acquisition than with retention performance, providing further evidence that a learner's current ease of access to a motor skill is a poor indicator of learning benefit.

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