Journal article
Configural Response Learning: The Acquisition of a Nonpredictive Motor Skill
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.33(6), pp.1451-1467
12/2007
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.6.1451
PMID: 18085956
Abstract
This study examined the representational nature of configural response learning using a task that required simultaneous keypresses with 2 or 3 fingers, similar to the production of chords on the piano. If the benefits of learning are related to the retrieval of individual stimulus-response mappings, performance should depend on the frequencies of the individual responses forming each chord. Alternatively, learning may involve the encoding of configural information concerning the relationship between the chord elements. In Experiment 1, training was restricted to a subset of the 120 possible 3-element chords. Probe blocks included the practiced chords, chords composed of novel configurations of practiced elements (reconfigured), and chords that contained a new element (new). Practiced chords were performed faster than reconfigured chords, indicating learning involves the encoding of configural information. Experiment 2 showed that learning was not restricted to configurations within each hand. Experiments 3 and 4 demonstrated that learning was largely response based.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Configural Response Learning: The Acquisition of a Nonpredictive Motor Skill
- Creators
- Eliot Hazeltine - Department of Psychology, University of IowaPaul Aparicio - Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAndrea Weinstein - Department of Psychology, University of California, BerkeleyRichard B Ivry - Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.33(6), pp.1451-1467
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- DOI
- 10.1037/0096-1523.33.6.1451
- PMID
- 18085956
- ISSN
- 0096-1523
- eISSN
- 1939-1277
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000002, name: National Institutes of Health, award: NS33504; NS30256
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2007
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070995902771
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