%0 Journal Article
	%A Herbert Ugrinowitsch and  Suziane Peixoto dos Santos-Naves and  Michele Viviene Carbinatto and  Rodolfo NovellinoBenda and  Go Tani
	%D 2011
	%J International Journal of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 53, 2011
	%T Motor Skill Adaptation Depends On the Level of Learning
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14247
	%V 53
	%X An experiment was conducted to examine the effect of the level of performance stabilization on the human adaptability to perceptual-motor perturbation in a complex coincident timing task. Three levels of performance stabilization were established operationally: pre-stabilization, stabilization, and super-stabilization groups. Each group practiced the task until reached its level of stabilization in a constant sequence of movements and under a constant time constraint before exposure to perturbation. The results clearly showed that performance stabilization is a pre-condition for adaptation. Moreover, variability before reaching stabilization is harmful to adaptation and persistent variability after stabilization is beneficial. Moreover, the behavior of variability is specific to each measure.

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