Herbert Ugrinowitsch and Suziane Peixoto dos Santos-Naves and Michele Viviene Carbinatto and Rodolfo NovellinoBenda and Go Tani
Motor Skill Adaptation Depends On the Level of Learning
709 - 713
2011
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International Journal of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14247
https://publications.waset.org/vol/53
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
An experiment was conducted to examine the effect of the level of performance stabilization on the human adaptability to perceptualmotor perturbation in a complex coincident timing task. Three levels of performance stabilization were established operationally prestabilization, stabilization, and superstabilization 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 precondition 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.
Open Science Index 53, 2011