Retention of pursuit rotor skill after one year.

Abstract

The retention of motor skill has been studied by numerous experimenters since the early work of Book and Swift on typewriting in which a high degree of retention was found even after a lapse of two years. A summary of significant studies on longtime retention in motor skills has been made by McGeoch (2).A study (i) of the effect of rest pauses of varying lengths interpolated early and late in learning on the acquisition of pursuit rotor skill has been reported by the writer. In this investigation 457 subjects were given 20 trials of one min. each separated by a one-min. rest except where longer 600 500 boo 300 zoo 100

Oral recognition of forms and oral muscular coordination ability. A longitudinal study in young adults

“…Thus, Lewis & Lowe (1956) after 3 months observed nearly 100% retention with the help of a complex coordinator. Similar results have been reported by others (Bell, 1950;Jahnke & Duncan, 1956;Battig et al, 1957;Ellis, Pryer & Barnett, 1960;Ammons et al, 1958) with other test forms and evaluation methods.…”

Retention of motor skills: Review.

“…Data on the retention of continuous movements come from studies of i pursuit tracking (19,64,71,103,115,126), compensatory tracking (9,14,18,48,87), and balancing (88,101,109,115).…”

Persistent coordination patterns in a complex task after 10 years delay

“…that retention of motor skills over long delays is good [12]- [13]. Subjects typically show a reduction in performance of just 20 % and recover rapidly their previous skill after a few practice trials [13]- [14]. In our knowledge, the longest delays go to 1 year to 5 years in essentially perceptivo motor tasks as pursuit rotor, button-pushing tasks, or memory tasks [13]- [15]- [14].…”

“…that retention of motor skills over long delays is good [12]- [13]. Subjects typically show a reduction in performance of just 20 % and recover rapidly their previous skill after a few practice trials [13]- [14].…”

“…Subjects typically show a reduction in performance of just 20 % and recover rapidly their previous skill after a few practice trials [13]- [14]. In our knowledge, the longest delays go to 1 year to 5 years in essentially perceptivo motor tasks as pursuit rotor, button-pushing tasks, or memory tasks [13]- [15]- [14]. Few recent studies deal with retention in gross motor skill (tossing, walking, postural stability task) but their interest is centred on pathological point of view [16] or re-acquisition after disturb task [17].…”