Transfer (Psychology)

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Task-specific internal models for kinematic transformations.

Numerous studies of motor learning have focused on how people adapt their reaching movements to novel dynamic and visuomotor perturbations that alter the actual or visually perceived motion of the hand. An important finding from this work is that ...
Christine Tong, J Randall Flanagan (J Neurophysiol, 200308)
task-specific-internal-models-kinematic-transformations.asp

2.

Context-gated knowledge partitioning in categorization.

According to the knowledge partitioning framework, people sometimes master complex tasks by creating multiple independent parcels of partial knowledge. Research has shown that knowledge parcels may contain mutually contradictory information, and that ...
Lee-Xieng Yang, Stephan Lewandowsky (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200307)
context-gated-knowledge-partitioning-categorization.asp

3.

Effects of two different dynamic environments on force adaptation: exposure to a new force but not the preceding force experience accounts for transition- and after-effects.

This study investigated force adaptation in humans during goal-directed flexion forearm motion. The ability of the motor system to adapt to changes in internal or external forces is essential for the successful control of voluntary movement. In a first ...
Tobias Kalenscher, Karl-Theodor Kalveram, Jürgen Konczak (Motor Control, 200307)
effects-two-different-dynamic-environments-force-adaptation-exposure.asp

4.

Transfer of value from fit.

People experience regulatory fit when they pursue a goal in a manner that sustains their regulatory orientation (E. T. Higgins, 2000). Five studies tested whether the value experienced from regulatory fit can transfer to a subsequent evaluation of an ...
E Tory Higgins, Lorraine Chen Idson, Antonio L Freitas, Scott Spiegel, Daniel C Molden (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200306)
transfer-value-fit.asp

5.

Practice schedule and acquisition, retention, and transfer of a throwing task in 6-yr.-old children.

Earlier studies have raised questions about the usefulness of variable and random practice in learning motor tasks so this study was designed to investigate the effects of contextual interference in young children, and specifically to evaluate the ...
Juan Granda Vera, Mariano Medina Montilla (Percept Mot Skills, 200306)
practice-schedule-acquisition-retention-transfer-throwing-task-yr.asp

6.

Adult attachment, the transition to parenthood, and depressive symptoms.

Testing a model suggested by J. Bowlby (1988), this study investigated how a personal vulnerability (attachment ambivalence) interacts with perceptions of deficient spousal support before and during a major life stressor (the transition to parenthood) to ...
Jeffry A Simpson, W Steven Rholes, Lorne Campbell, Sisi Tran, Carol L Wilson (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200306)
adult-attachment-transition-parenthood-depressive-symptoms.asp

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The role of sensory preconditioning in memory retrieval by preverbal infants.

Infants memories are highly specific to their training stimuli; they rarely transfer learned responding. In two experiments, we asked whether sensory preconditioning facilitates the transfer of deferred imitation. In Experiments 1A and 1B, 6-month-olds ...
Rachel Barr, Heidi Marrott, Carolyn Rovee-Collier (Learn Behav, 200305)
role-sensory-preconditioning-memory-retrieval-preverbal-infants.asp

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Alphabetical knowledge from whole words training: effects of explicit instruction and implicit experience on learning script segmentation.

We investigated the possibility that pattern segmentation skills, specifically, phonological decoding, evolve implicitly in adult readers given training in an artificial script. In this Morse-like script each phoneme was represented by 2-3 discrete ...
T Bitan, A Karni (Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 200305)
alphabetical-knowledge-whole-words-training-effects-explicit.asp

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Intermanual transfer of force control is modulated by asymmetry of muscular strength.

Interlateral transfer of learning is conceptualized as an index of the degree to which learning takes place at a lower level of motor control, with strong dependence on the effector system, or at a higher effector-independent level in the movement ...
Luis Augusto Teixeira, Leandro Quedas Caminha (Exp Brain Res, 200304)
intermanual-transfer-force-control-modulated-asymmetry-muscular.asp

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The control of sequential aiming movements: the influence of practice and manual asymmetries on the one-target advantage.

The present experiment was conducted to explore the effect of practice on the one-target advantage in manual aiming, as well as asymmetries in intermanual transfer of training. Reaction and movement times for the first movement were longer in the ...
Ann Lavrysen, Werner F Helsen, Luc Tremblay, Digby Elliott, Jos J Adam, Peter Feys, Martinus J Buekers (Cortex, 200304)
control-sequential-aiming-movements-influence-practice-manual.asp