The dimensional analysis of motion: IV. Transfer effects and direction of movement

Abstract

48 right-handed college students, both male and female were trained on a particular pattern of movement and then tested on 3 other patterns of motion. To obtain a measure of transfer effect, each subject performed one trial on each of the 4 movement patterns, including the pattern on which he had been trained, on the day following completion of training. The data indicate that, for different directional patterns of motion, the travel component on the pattern shows limited and inconsistent changes with practice, whereas the manipulative component of the pattern displays uniform, progressive change throughout the 8 days of training. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)