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  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Motor Skill Acquisition

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  • Skilled typists exhibit high accuracy despite poor explicit knowledge of key locations.
  • A proposed dual-loop model suggests typing involves sentence-to-word (outer) and word-to-keystroke (inner) processing.
  • The spatial knowledge within the inner loop remains poorly understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the hierarchical structure of spatial knowledge in typists' inner loop.
  • To determine if keyboard knowledge is organized within word-level representations or is independent.
  • To explore the role of language structure in acquiring keyboard spatial memory.

Main Methods:

  • Participants typed English, English-like, and random character strings.
  • Typing performance was assessed under normal, partially occluded, and fully occluded conditions.
  • Error rates were analyzed to infer the nature of spatial knowledge.

Main Results:

  • Error rates increased significantly when typing random strings compared to structured (English/English-like) strings under occlusion.
  • No significant difference in error rates was observed between English and English-like strings under occlusion.
  • This indicates that hierarchical word-level representations do not drive spatial keyboard knowledge.

Conclusions:

  • Typists' spatial keyboard knowledge is not primarily driven by hierarchical word-level representations.
  • Knowledge acquisition appears to stem from a collection of individual processes.
  • Frequent key-to-key transitions and sequential language structures significantly influence spatial memory for typing.