Motor Learning in Children: Feedback Effects on Skill Acquisition | Zendy

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Motor Learning in Children: Feedback Effects on Skill Acquisition

Author(s) -

Katherine J. Sullivan,

Shailesh Kantak,

Patricia A. Burtner

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

physical therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1538-6724

pISSN - 0031-9023

DOI - 10.2522/ptj.20070196

Subject(s) - motor learning , consistency (knowledge bases) , motor skill , dreyfus model of skill acquisition , psychology , test (biology) , physical medicine and rehabilitation , audiology , young adult , knowledge of results , developmental psychology , randomized controlled trial , medicine , computer science , paleontology , management , artificial intelligence , surgery , neuroscience , economics , biology , task (project management) , economic growth

Reduced feedback during motor skill practice benefits motor learning. However, it is unknown whether these findings can be applied to motor learning in children, given that children have different information-processing capabilities than adults. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of different relative frequencies of feedback on skill acquisition in children compared with young adults.

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