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TitleMarginally perceptible outcome feedback, motor learning and implicit processes
AuthorsMasters, RSW1
Maxwell, JP1
Eves, FF2
KeywordsDeclarative knowledge
Hypothesis testing
Implicit [motor] learning
Outcome feedback
Subjective and objective threshold of awareness
Issue Date2009
PublisherAcademic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/concog
CitationConsciousness And Cognition, 2009, v. 18 n. 3, p. 639-645 [How to Cite?]
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2009.03.004
AbstractParticipants struck 500 golf balls to a concealed target. Outcome feedback was presented at the subjective or objective threshold of awareness of each participant or at a supraliminal threshold. Participants who received fully perceptible (supraliminal) feedback learned to strike the ball onto the target, as did participants who received feedback that was only marginally perceptible (subjective threshold). Participants who received feedback that was not perceptible (objective threshold) showed no learning. Upon transfer to a condition in which the target was unconcealed, performance increased in both the subjective and the objective threshold condition, but decreased in the supraliminal condition. In all three conditions, participants reported minimal declarative knowledge of their movements, suggesting that deliberate hypothesis testing about how best to move in order to perform the motor task successfully was disrupted by the impoverished disposition of the visual outcome feedback. It was concluded that sub-optimally perceptible visual feedback evokes implicit processes. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
ISSN1053-8100
2011 Impact Factor: 2.308
2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.125
DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2009.03.004
ReferencesReferences in Scopus
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dc.contributor.authorMasters, RSW
dc.contributor.authorMaxwell, JP
dc.contributor.authorEves, FF
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-06T09:35:58Z
dc.date.available2010-09-06T09:35:58Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractParticipants struck 500 golf balls to a concealed target. Outcome feedback was presented at the subjective or objective threshold of awareness of each participant or at a supraliminal threshold. Participants who received fully perceptible (supraliminal) feedback learned to strike the ball onto the target, as did participants who received feedback that was only marginally perceptible (subjective threshold). Participants who received feedback that was not perceptible (objective threshold) showed no learning. Upon transfer to a condition in which the target was unconcealed, performance increased in both the subjective and the objective threshold condition, but decreased in the supraliminal condition. In all three conditions, participants reported minimal declarative knowledge of their movements, suggesting that deliberate hypothesis testing about how best to move in order to perform the motor task successfully was disrupted by the impoverished disposition of the visual outcome feedback. It was concluded that sub-optimally perceptible visual feedback evokes implicit processes. © 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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dc.identifier.citationConsciousness And Cognition, 2009, v. 18 n. 3, p. 639-645 [How to Cite?]
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2009.03.004
dc.identifier.citeulike5123232
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2009.03.004
dc.identifier.epage645
dc.identifier.hkuros163626
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000270376100008
dc.identifier.issn1053-8100
2011 Impact Factor: 2.308
2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.125
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.openurl
dc.identifier.pmid19375946
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dc.identifier.spage639
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/87905
dc.identifier.volume18
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAcademic Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/concog
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofConsciousness and Cognition
dc.relation.referencesReferences in Scopus
dc.subject.meshAwareness
dc.subject.meshFeedback, Psychological
dc.subject.meshGolf - psychology
dc.subject.meshOrientation
dc.subject.meshPsychomotor Performance
dc.subjectDeclarative knowledge
dc.subjectHypothesis testing
dc.subjectImplicit [motor] learning
dc.subjectOutcome feedback
dc.subjectSubjective and objective threshold of awareness
dc.titleMarginally perceptible outcome feedback, motor learning and implicit processes
dc.typeArticle
Author Affiliations
  1. The University of Hong Kong
  2. University of Birmingham