The primary purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of the temporal presentation of cognitive training on motor skill acquisition, retention, and transfer. Four groups of subjects (N = 8 in each group) were presented training, based on the cognitive aspects of a basic flight maneuver, at different times during the acquisition of the motor skills needed to perform that maneuver. Results indicate that the performance of the group that received extensive cognitive training prior to attempting the associated motor skills was significantly better (p < .05) than the groups that received the same cognitive training interspersed during the initial learning of the motor skills. This finding was true even when the interspersed training was preceded by extensive cognitive pretraining. Results also show that cognitive training interspersed with motor skill learning produced some interference in learning as the performance of the two groups receiving the training was below that of the control group which received no cognitive training whatsoever. Transfer of training to a similar maneuver indicated that the group that was initially trained using only extensive cognitive pretraining performed significantly better (p < .05) than the group that received only interspersed cognitive training. There were no significant differences between groups on the retention trial. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-01, Section: A, page: 0066. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75492 |
| Contributors | SMITH, BRUCE ALLAN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 129 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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