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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Motor Learning
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Learned motor sequences are fundamental to skilled performance.
  • Disruptions in learned sequences are known to slow performance.
  • The impact of sequence element position on performance impairment is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the position of a changed element (early vs. late) affects performance impairment in learned motor sequences.
  • To explore the underlying mechanisms of performance disruption following sequence alteration.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Participants performed a 7-element motor sequence with a change in either the third (early) or sixth (late) element.
  • Experiment 2: Replicated Experiment 1 and tested a 4-element sequence with an early change (third element).

Main Results:

  • A change in an early element (third position) resulted in greater performance impairment compared to a late element change (sixth position) in a 7-element sequence.
  • Impairment extended to elements following the deviant element.
  • An early change in a shorter 4-element sequence yielded similar impairment levels to a late change in a longer sequence.

Conclusions:

  • Motor sequence learning involves forming both element-to-element associative links and a holistic chunk representation.
  • Early sequence changes more severely disrupt the chunk representation and associative links, leading to greater performance decrements.
  • This mechanism explains why early disruptions have a more pronounced effect on motor sequence performance.