Episodic Contributions to Sequential Control: Learning from a Typist's Touch

Autor/inn/en	Crump, Matthew J. C.; Logan, Gordon D.
Titel	Episodic Contributions to Sequential Control: Learning from a Typist's Touch
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36 (2010) 3, S.662-672 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0018390
Schlagwörter	Teaching Methods; Learning Processes; Office Occupations; Sequential Learning; Psychomotor Skills; Universities; College Students; Influences; Cognitive Processes; Experiments; Word Recognition; Psychology; Tennessee + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Learning process; Lernprozess; Clerical occupations; Büroberuf; Didaktische Sequenzierung; Lernsequenz; Psychomotorische Aktivität; University; Universität; Collegestudent; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Erprobung; Worterkennung; Psychologie
Abstract	Sequential control over routine action is widely assumed to be controlled by stable, highly practiced representations. Our findings demonstrate that the processes controlling routine actions in the domain of skilled typing can be flexibly manipulated by memory processes coding recent experience with typing particular words and letters. In two experiments, we extended Masson's (1986) procedure for measuring item-specific learning in the context of acquiring an unfamiliar skill to the highly skilled domain of typing. Skilled typists' performance improved during practice with typing words composed from a specific set of letters. In a transfer phase, performance was fastest for trained words, followed by new words composed of trained letters, and slowest for new words composed of untrained letters. The finding that recent episodic experience with typing particular words and letters influences skilled typing performance holds widespread implications for theories of typing, sequence learning, and motor control. (Contains 2 footnotes, 2 tables, and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10