The primary goal of instruction should be to facilitate long-term learning—that is, to create
relatively permanent changes in comprehension, understanding, and skills of the types that …

Behavioral research in cognitive psychology provides evidence for an important distinction
between immediate performance that accompanies practice and long-term performance that …

“This tenth edition of Motor Control and Learning extends and updates the major revisions in
the previous edition. The many changes in that edition included new chapters, restructured …

Exoskeletons can enhance human mobility, but we still know little about why they are
effective. For example, we do not know the relative importance of training, how much is …

Motor skills can take weeks to months to acquire and can diminish over time in the absence
of continued practice. Thus, strategies that enhance skill acquisition or retention are of great …

Vários aspectos deste texto foram mantidos das edições anteriores, enquanto outros foram
alterados e adicionados. Inicialmente, entre os aspectos que permaneceram inalterados …

The field of skill acquisition is in an exciting period owing to the broad interest in learning
processes and their applications across a variety of disciplines and professions (eg …

The authors examined variable versus constant practice effects on implicit motor learning in
continuous pursuit tracking. On every trial, two thirds of each trial consisted of random …

This paper addresses the contextual interference hypothesis, which was originally
formulated by Battig (1966) and later adapted to motor learning by Shea and Morgan (1979) …

Random practice results in more effective motor learning than either constant or blocked
practice. Recent studies have investigated the effects of practice schedules at the …