The Role of Oculomotor Information in the Learning of Sequential Aiming Movements

With their eyes initially on either the home, midline, or final end position, 30 participants practiced a 2-target aiming movement. After 120 acquisition trials, participants performed a retention test and were then transferred to each of the other 2 eye conditions. During acquisition, all groups im...

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Published in:Journal of motor behavior 2004-03, Vol.36 (1), p.82-90
Main Authors: Helsen, Werner F., Tremblay, Luc, Berg, Miek Van den, Elliott, Digby
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activity levels. Psychomotricity
Adult
Attention
Biological and medical sciences
Eye Movements
eye-hand coordination
Feedback (Response)
Functional Laterality
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Handedness
Humans
Kinesthesis
Lateral Dominance
Learning
Male
manual aiming
Motor ability
Motor Reactions
Orientation
Perceptual Motor Coordination
Practice (Psychology)
Proprioception
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychomotor activities
Psychomotor Performance
Reaction Time
Retention (Psychology)
Serial Learning
Skill Development
specificity of learning
Transfer (Psychology)
Transfer of Training
Vision
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Summary:With their eyes initially on either the home, midline, or final end position, 30 participants practiced a 2-target aiming movement. After 120 acquisition trials, participants performed a retention test and were then transferred to each of the other 2 eye conditions. During acquisition, all groups improved over practice, but the home group showed the greatest improvement. The temporal improvement was most pronounced in the times spent after peak velocity. Retention and transfer tests indicated that participants performed best under eye-movement conditions that were the same as the 1 they had practiced in. There was also positive transfer of training between conditions in which the oculomotor information was similar. Thus, to optimize learning, one should practice under the same afferent and oculomotor conditions that will be required for the final performance.
ISSN:0022-2895
1940-1027
DOI:10.3200/JMBR.36.1.82-90