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Melanie A Hart1, T Gilmour Reeve

  • 1School of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls 50614-0241, USA. melanie.hart@uni.edu

Acta Psychologica
|February 1, 2002
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Practice influences reaction time, but its effect on the response-interference effect depends on the task. While practice did not alter the response-interference effect in response-selection tasks, it did decrease it in response-implementation tasks.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Human motor control
  • Experimental psychology

Background:

  • The response-interference effect increases reaction times when responses use the same hand.
  • Research on practice's influence on reaction-time effects is limited, especially concerning the response-interference effect.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how practice affects the response-interference effect.
  • To differentiate the impact of practice on response-selection versus response-implementation processes.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Bilateral transfer task to assess practice's influence on response-selection.
  • Experiment 2: Priming task to assess practice's influence on response-implementation.

Main Results:

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  • Practice decreased reaction times but did not affect the response-interference effect in Experiment 1 (response-selection).
  • Practice altered the response-interference effect in Experiment 2 (response-implementation).

Conclusions:

  • Practice impacts reaction time but not uniformly across all cognitive processes.
  • With limited finger use, practice modifies mechanical constraints in response-implementation, reducing the response-interference effect.