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Citation

Liu YT, Mayer-Kress G, Newell KM. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 2006; 32(2): 380-393.

Affiliation

Department of Physical Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/0096-1523.32.2.380

PMID

16634677

Abstract

The experiments examined qualitative and quantitative changes in the dynamics of learning a novel motor skill (roller ball task) as a function of the manipulation of a control parameter (initial ball speed). The focus was on the relation between the rates of change in performance over practice time and the changing time scales of the evolving attractor dynamic. Results showed 3 different learning patterns to the changes in the dynamics as a function of practice that were mediated by the initial ball speed. Only participants who learned the task showed a bifurcation in coordination mode that was preceded by enhanced performance variability. The observed multiple time scales to motor learning are interpreted as the products of the dynamical stability and instability realized from (a) the continually evolving landscape dynamics due to bifurcations between attractor organization and (b) the transient phenomena associated with moving toward and away from fixed-point dynamics.


Language: en

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