Contextual interference

Peer-guided practice of motor skills

Submitted by nicolah on 17. October 2017 - 13:37

If you were asked to organize a partner’s practice, how would you choose to do it? Would you use the same strategies you would use for yourself? In this study, we wanted to explore how people organize practice for a partner of equal (low) skill and compare this to how they choose to organize practice for themselves. Participants practiced 3 different tasks (involving timed sequences on a keypad).

Author:

April Karlinsky

Reference:

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Peer-Scheduled Practice on Motor Learning

Is being good at practice a transferable skill?

Submitted by nicolah on 17. October 2017 - 12:45

Has it ever seemed like experts in one domain more easily become skilled in another? In this study, we were interested in whether having expertise in a specific domain – and the vast practice experience that comes with it – influences how experts choose to practice when learning new skills outside their area of expertise. The question of how to structure practice in order to maximize learning has received a lot of attention in motor learning research.

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Author:

April Karlinsky

Reference:

Learning from the experts: Gaining insights into best practice during the acquisition of three novel motor skills