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ERIC Number: EJ709118
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Dec
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0270-1367
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Sensory Integration in the Learning of Aiming toward "Self-Defined" Targets
Robin, Christelle; Toussaint, Lucette; Blandin, Yannick; Vinter, Annie
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, v75 n4 p381-387 Dec 2004
This study aimed at supporting the specificity of learning hypothesis, when aiming was based on internal cues, as directing the hand toward a "self-defined" target location. Participants practiced modest (20 trials) or intensive (720 trials) training with visual and proprioceptive information or proprioceptive information only. Pretests and posttests were performed in sensory conditions that did or did not match the training condition. Results showed that dynamic visual cues played a dominant role at the beginning of the task, and an intensive practice resulted in increased accuracy of kinesthetic information and efferent mechanisms of motor responses. These results have implications with regard to motor learning conceptions and training as a function of the task constraints.
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1900 Association Dr., Reston, VA 20191-1598. Web site: http://www.aahperd.org.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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