Presentation 2007/5/17
The effect of incidental visual context in visuomotor sequential learning
Hanako Ikeda, Katsumi Watanabe,
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Abstract(in English) People often experience difficulties when they perform a procedural action in an environment that differs from that of initial learning period. In this study we examined the effect of incidental environmental context on visuo-motor sequential learning. We used a sequential button press task in which subjects learned visuo-motor sequences by trial and error. Incidental (i.e., irrelevant to the task) visual environments (contexts) were presented while subjects performing the task. The visual contexts were either fixed or changed randomly in a session. We found that response times decreased when the incidental visual context was fixed in early stage of learning. However, this incidental visual context did not influence accuracy through entire block. After an extensive well-learning, the effect of visual context disappeared. These results suggest that the environmental context may influences performance time (i.e., speed), but without affecting not error rate (i.e., accuracy) in visuomotor sequential learning.
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Keyword(in English) sequential learning / speed / err and context
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Title (in English) The effect of incidental visual context in visuomotor sequential learning
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Keyword(1) sequential learning
Keyword(2) speed
Keyword(3) err and context
1st Author's Name Hanako Ikeda
1st Author's Affiliation Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba:Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo:National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology()
2nd Author's Name Katsumi Watanabe
2nd Author's Affiliation Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo:National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology:ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency
Date 2007/5/17
Paper # HCS2007-18,HIP2007-18
Volume (vol) vol.107
Number (no) 59
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 4
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