Learning a rate of movement.

1 January 1954

journal article
research article
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology

Vol. 47 (6) , 465-470
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0054882

Abstract

Human subjects were capable of learning to produce a rate of rotary movement when their average rate error was descr. to them as a discrepancy between the required and the actual number of units of linear or angular distance traversed in one minute. The final level of performance was not improved by the provision of a continuous visual indication of rate error. Previous practice with the visual guide was a hindrance when subjects were required to produce the rate of movement with the aid of kinesthetic cues alone. Implications for the design of training devices and the analysis of tracking records are discussed.

Keywords

LEARNING

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THE INTERMITTENCY OF CONTROL MOVEMENTS AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REFRACTORY PERIOD¹
The British Journal of Psychology. General Section, 1948