The Role of Interference and Task Similarity on the Acquisition, Retention, and Transfer of Simple Motor Skills
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
- Vol. 62 (1) , 18-26
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.1991.10607514
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to determine if two levels of task similarity influenced acquisition, retention, and transfer performance of three simple motor skills. Sixty right-handed subjects were randomly assigned to one of five (n = 12) experimental conditions. Each subject performed 72 trials during acquisition. Twenty-four trials were recorded for each movement task. Following a 5-min unfilled retention interval, subjects performed 4 trials on each task before completing 12 transfer trials of a novel movement. Contextual interference effects for acquisition and retention were supported for low but not high similarity tasks. Further, the results suggest that a different memory representation exists for high and low similarity tasks.Keywords
This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
- Variability in PracticeJournal of Motor Behavior, 1988
- Chapter 12 Knowledge Incorporation in Motor RepresentationPublished by Elsevier ,1988
- Level of Expertise, Interpolated Activity and Contextual Interference Effects on Memory and TransferPerceptual and Motor Skills, 1987
- Contextual Interference Effects in Learning Three Badminton ServesResearch Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1986
- Can Forgetting Facilitate Skill Acquisition?Published by Elsevier ,1985
- Context Effects in Memory and Learning Movement InformationPublished by Elsevier ,1983
- The Effects of Contextual Interference on Females With Varied Experience in Open Sport SkillsResearch Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1982
- Contextual interference effects on the acquisition, retention, and transfer of a motor skill.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1979