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  • Motor learning
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Human motor control

Background:

  • Explicit motor sequence learning demonstrates robust offline gains.
  • Interference with these gains occurs if a different motor sequence is practiced within 4-6 hours after initial learning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how practicing spatially or motorically similar sequences affects offline gains in motor sequence learning.
  • To test the hypothesis that spatially similar sequences would not compromise memory stabilization and might amplify overnight gains.

Main Methods:

  • Participants practiced a target motor sequence.
  • Subsequent practice involved either a novel, motorically similar, or spatially similar sequence.
  • Offline gains and overnight gains for the target sequence were measured.

Main Results:

  • Offline improvement for the target motor sequence was observed without intervening practice.
  • This gain was significantly reduced by intervening practice with a novel or motorically similar sequence.
  • No enhanced overnight gain was found for the target sequence after practicing a spatially similar sequence.

Conclusions:

  • Offline improvement in motor sequence learning is not entirely eliminated by subsequent practice of an alternative sequence.
  • The type of motor sequence practiced during the intervening period influences post-practice consolidation and the expression of offline facilitation.