dyad practice

How Did My Shot Look? The Concealed Influence of Practicing With a Partner

Submitted by nicolah on 26. May 2024 - 13:33

Have you ever wondered how practicing with a partner or in a group would impact your own performance? Completing skills in shared environments can unintentionally influence the behaviours of people practicing together. One explanation for this influence is related to a hidden process in the brain that causes us to covertly imitate another’s action, which impacts how we then plan and execute our own movements. This study was conducted to test how partners influence each other when acquiring new skills and potential costs or benefits of these “hidden” imitation processes on motor learning.

Author:

Porter Trevisan

Reference:

Short-term evidence of partner-induced performance biases in simultaneous and alternating dyad practice in golf

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