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Parsing motor skill learning into multiple brief sessions enhances long-term gains and skill transfer in children. Multi-session practice improves grapho-motor skills and learning from new tasks.

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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Motor Learning
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Children's ability to transfer learned motor skills to new situations depends on how practice is structured.
  • Short practice sessions may limit procedural memory consolidation, impacting long-term skill retention and transfer.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the effects of single-session versus multi-session practice on children's motor skill learning and transfer.
  • To investigate how practice scheduling influences long-term gains in grapho-motor skills.

Main Methods:

  • 40 children (7-8 years old) practiced a novel letter task (Invented Letter Task - ILT) using either single-session or multi-session schedules.
  • Transfer tasks were assessed at 24 hours and 4-5 weeks post-training.

Main Results:

  • While single-session practice was initially faster and more accurate, both groups showed similar gains at 24 hours.
  • Multi-session practice led to comparable or better speed and accuracy in transfer tasks at 24 hours.
  • Long-term, multi-session practice resulted in greater gains in the trained task and enhanced performance on transfer tasks.

Conclusions:

  • Structuring practice over several brief sessions can lead to significant long-term improvements in children's grapho-motor skills.
  • Multi-session practice protocols enhance skill transfer and promote more effective learning from related tasks.