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Perceptual - Motor Skill Learning
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~aglass/M&ASyllabus.htm
Perceptual-Motor Skill Learning Motor Skill Learning Perceptual-Motor Skill Learning
Planning & Motor Learning Motor learning occurs because the final
posture of a successful movement is stored in memory.
When the target again appears in the same location the posture is retrieved and becomes the plan that is programmed and executed.
The retrieval of stored postures reduces the amount of computation necessary for fast, accurate action.
Hence, motor learning occurs through the accumulation of plans.
Stages of Motor Skill Learning
Declarative: New activity requires many small motor plans. Constant attention required.
Associative: Some attention still required to control multiple independent sequences.
Autonomous: A single motor program for the entire action. Attention freed to perform other activities.
Apraxia Apraxia results when a person no
longer has access to the posture representations
necessary to guide action the perceptual information necessary
to select the correct posture representations
Characteristics of Motor Skill Learning
The learning function is a log function. Most of the improvement comes at
the beginning. However, there is not an asymptote.
There is always improvement with practice.
Practice and speed in cigar making
Each point is the average cycle-time over one week’s production for one operator. The ordinate is the total production by the operator since beginning work. (After
Crossman, 1959).
Why does a motor skill become autonomous? Retrieval rather than construction
of final posture representation Efficiency scheduling of
movements Representation and/or execution
downloaded to cerebellum
More Characteristics of Motor Plans
Though exact repetition is the key to learning, what is learned is very abstract. Writing
Perceptual-Motor Skill Learning Motor Skill Learning Perceptual-Motor Skill Learning
Question In order to learn to type, how much
time should you spend practicing every day?
Teaching Postal Workers to Type (Baddeley & Longman, 1978)
English postal workers were taught to type so that they could use new mail sorting equipment
Four different training schedules were used
Learning for four training schedules (hours x day)
Learning Function
0
20
40
60
80
100
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55
Days
Keyst
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Per
Min
ute
1x11x22x12x2
Characteristics of Learning Function The learning function is a log function.
Most improvement at beginning. However, there is not an asymptote.
There is always improvement with practice.
The study interval from the beginning of training to criterion is shorter for massed than for distributed practice.
Learning Asymptote for Four Training Schedules
Learning Asymptote
0
20
40
60
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100
35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80
Hours
Keyst
rokes
Per
Min
ute
1x11x22x12x2
Practice Time The total time spent practicing to
reach criterion is longer for massed than for distributed practice.
Retention Function
30
40
50
60
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90
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Retention Interval (Months)
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s/M
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1 hr/once
1 hr/twice
2hr/once
2hr/twice
Characteristics of Retention Function Long-term retention appears to be
a function of number of days of practice rather than number of hours of practice So distributed learning produces
better retention than massed learning Perhaps forgetting does not occur
for routine activities
Autonomous vs. Automatic An action under the control of a plan stored in
memory is autonomous. It does not require computation so other (mental) actions requiring computation may be carried on at the same time. Dressing, eating, speaking, writing
An autonomous action that is initiated by a perceptual input, e.g., hitting, is called automatic. Hitting and catching
Normal activity relies on both autonomous and automatic actions.
Huck and the woman When Huck Finn put on a dress
and tried to pass for a girl a woman found him out right away.
How?
Huck moved like a boy. …. When you set out to thread a needle don’t hold the
thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that’s the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t’other way.
And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a-tiptoe and fetch your hand up over your head as awkward as you can…. Throw stiff-armed from the shoulder, like there was a pivot there for it to turn on, like a girl; not from the wrist and elbow, with your arm out to one side, like a boy.
And, mind you, when a girl tries to catch anything in her lap she throws her knees apart; she don’t clap them together, the way you did when you catched the lump of lead.