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Stephenson, Jennifer – Australian Journal of Education, 2009
Perceptual motor programs continue to be used in Australian schools despite evidence showing they do not influence academic learning. Brain Gym[R] is one perceptual motor program that is used in schools in Australia and overseas. There is little evidence to support the claims made about the benefits of Brain Gym[R]; its theoretical underpinning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Perceptual Motor Learning, Web Sites, Educational Policy
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Perry, Lynn K.; Smith, Linda B.; Hockema, Stephen A. – Developmental Science, 2008
Recent research has shown that 2-year-olds fail at a task that ostensibly only requires the ability to understand that solid objects cannot pass through other solid objects. Two experiments were conducted in which 2- and 3-year-olds judged the stopping point of an object as it moved at varying speeds along a path and behind an occluder, stopping…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cognitive Development, Motion, Child Development
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Chiviacowsky, Suzete; Wulf, Gabriele – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2007
Recent studies (Chiviacowsky & Wulf, 2002, 2005) have shown that learners prefer to receive feedback after they believe they had a "good" rather than "poor" trial. The present study followed up on this finding and examined whether learning would benefit if individuals received feedback after good relative to poor trials. Participants practiced a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Handedness, Object Manipulation, Attitude Measures
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Memmert, D.; Hagemann, N.; Althoetmar, R.; Geppert, S.; Seiler, D. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2009
This study uses three experiments with different kinds of training conditions to investigate the "easy-to-hard" principle, context interference conditions, and feedback effects for learning anticipatory skills in badminton. Experiment 1 (N = 60) showed that a training program that gradually increases the difficulty level has no advantage over the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Racquet Sports, Difficulty Level, Skill Development
Schasre, June Marie – Grade Teacher, 1971
Teaching children to identify objects or people while blindfolded as a means of producing heightened perceptions is described. (DB)
Descriptors: Perceptual Motor Learning
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Paelecke, Marko; Kunde, Wilfried – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Voluntary motor actions aim at and are thus governed by predictable action effects. Therefore, representations of an action's effects normally must become activated prior to the action itself. In 5 psychological refractory period experiments the authors investigated whether the activation of such effect representations coincides with the response…
Descriptors: Psychology, Cognitive Processes, Responses, Models
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Lozano, Sandra C.; Hard, Bridgette Martin; Tversky, Barbara – Cognition, 2007
Embodied approaches to cognition propose that our own actions influence our understanding of the world. Do other people's actions also have this influence? The present studies show that perceiving another person's actions changes the way people think about objects in a scene. In Study 1, participants viewed a photograph and answered a question…
Descriptors: Photography, Visual Aids, Interpersonal Communication, Spatial Ability
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Kovacs, Christopher R. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2008
The assessment of fundamental motor skills in early learners is critical to the overall well-being and physical development of the students within the physical education setting. Olrich (2002) has suggested that any physical education program must be designed to assess both measures of physical fitness and fundamental motor skills in all students.…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Physical Fitness, Program Effectiveness
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Rodriguez, Gabriel; Alonso, Gumersinda – Learning and Motivation, 2004
Rats received different schedules of pre-exposure to a compound flavor (AX) and to one element of that compound (X). In Group ALT, exposure consisted of alternating trials with AX and X; Group BLK received a block with all AX trials before a separate block with all X trials (or vice versa). Discrimination between AX and X was assessed then by…
Descriptors: Animals, Perceptual Motor Learning, Experiments
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Gold, Jason M.; Sekuler, Allison B.; Bennett, Partrick J. – Cognitive Science, 2004
Performance in perceptual tasks often improves with practice. This effect is known as "perceptual learning," and it has been the source of a great deal of interest and debate over the course of the last century. Here, we consider the effects of perceptual learning within the context of signal detection theory. According to signal detection theory,…
Descriptors: Perceptual Motor Learning, Cognitive Psychology
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Doyo, Daisuke; Ohara, Atushi; Shida, Keisuke; Matsumoto, Toshiyuki; Otomo, Kazuo – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
Two years ago, the rapid retirement of the "baby boomer artisans" in vast numbers threatened to erode the competitiveness of Japanese manufacturers (i.e., the 2007 problem). This study proposes a practical process for extracting skills and designing a training system, to accelerate the learning of skills in production fields by younger…
Descriptors: Perceptual Motor Learning, Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Training Methods
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Reilly, James L.; Lencer, Rebekka; Bishop, Jeffrey R.; Keedy, Sarah; Sweeney, John A. – Brain and Cognition, 2008
The increasing use of eye movement paradigms to assess the functional integrity of brain systems involved in sensorimotor and cognitive processing in clinical disorders requires greater attention to effects of pharmacological treatments on these systems. This is needed to better differentiate disease and medication effects in clinical samples, to…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Eye Movements, Schizophrenia, Diseases
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Russell, Daniel M.; Newell, Karl M. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2007
The persistence and generality of the contextual interference (CI) effect was tested using a rapid sequential aiming task. Participants (N = 48) practiced three movement patterns for three blocks of 18 trials under a blocked (BL) or random (RA) schedule. Movement patterns were displayed and KR provided throughout practice and testing. A 24-hr…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Perceptual Motor Learning, Retention (Psychology), Reaction Time
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Hernandez, Arturo E.; Li, Ping – Psychological Bulletin, 2007
The acquisition of new skills over a life span is a remarkable human ability. This ability, however, is constrained by age of acquisition (AoA); that is, the age at which learning occurs significantly affects the outcome. This is most clearly reflected in domains such as language, music, and athletics. This article provides a perspective on the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
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Barrett, Tracy M.; Davis, Evan F.; Needham, Amy – Developmental Psychology, 2007
These experiments explored the role of prior experience in 12- to 18-month-old infants' tool-directed actions. In Experiment 1, infants' use of a familiar tool (spoon) to accomplish a novel task (turning on lights inside a box) was examined. Infants tended to grasp the spoon by its handle even when doing so made solving the task impossible (the…
Descriptors: Experiments, Infant Behavior, Infants, Motor Development
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