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The "Motor" in Implicit Motor Sequence Learning: A Foot-stepping Serial Reaction Time Task

The "Motor" in Implicit Motor Sequence Learning: A Foot-stepping Serial Reaction Time Task

Published on: May 3, 2018

Episodic contributions to sequential control: learning from a typist's touch.

Matthew J C Crump¹, Gordon D Logan

¹Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Wilson Hall, 111 21st Avenue south, Nashville, TN 37203, USA. matt.crump@vanderbilt.edu

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance

|June 3, 2010

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Recent typing experience, not just stable habits, shapes skilled typing. Memory for specific words and letters influences performance, impacting theories of motor control and sequence learning.

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Area of Science:

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Neuroscience
Motor Control

Background:

Routine actions are often thought to rely on fixed, practiced representations.
The role of recent experience in highly skilled, automated tasks is less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how recent memory influences skilled typing.
To examine the flexibility of sequential action control in expert typists.

Main Methods:

Adapted Masson's (1986) item-specific learning procedure for skilled typists.
Assessed typing performance on trained words, new words with trained letters, and new words with untrained letters.

Main Results:

Typing performance improved with practice on specific words and letter sets.
Transfer effects showed faster performance for trained words and words using trained letters.

Conclusions:

Skilled typing is flexibly influenced by recent episodic memory for words and letters.
Findings challenge stable representation theories and have implications for sequence learning and motor control research.