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  • Motor learning and control
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Skill acquisition

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  • Transfer of learned skills to new contexts is crucial for motor skill development.
  • Mechanisms of skill transfer following implicit or incidental learning are less understood than those following explicit learning.
  • The impact of practice schedules on implicit motor skill transfer requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effect of constant versus variable practice schedules on motor skill transfer.
  • To determine if sequence-specific knowledge acquired implicitly can transfer to novel sequence contexts.
  • To examine different types of transfer: task-general, inter-manual, and sequence-specific.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed an implicit serial response time task under either constant or variable practice conditions.
  • Response times were measured to assess transfer to non-overlapping, perceptually identical, and partially overlapping sequences.
  • Implicit learning and transfer were evaluated by comparing performance across different transfer conditions and practice schedules.

Main Results:

  • Partial skill transfer was observed across all tested transfer types (task-general, inter-manual, sequence-specific).
  • Variable practice demonstrated an advantage specifically for task-general transfer.
  • Sequence-specific knowledge was expressed for familiar subsequences within the overlapping transfer sequence.

Conclusions:

  • Constant practice may impede task-general motor skill transfer due to potential interference.
  • Sequence-specific knowledge acquired implicitly can be successfully applied to new sequential contexts.
  • Practice schedule influences the degree and type of motor skill transfer observed after implicit learning.