Commentary: Variability of Practice, Information Processing, and Decision Making—How Much Do We Know?

Frontiers in Psychology

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Taewon Kim¹  David L. Wright²  Wuwei Feng¹ 

[1] Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, United States;Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Laboratory, Division of Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States

关键词: contextual interference;    motor learning;    practice conditions;    memory consolidation;    practice variability;    random practice;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.685749

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The review by Czyz (2021) should be applauded for revisiting the role of practice variability for skillacquisition especially given ongoing interest in the identification of “best-practices” in instructionaland therapeutic contexts as well as the need for the development of a more mechanistic frameworkwithin which memory for skill is viewed. The present commentary reviews work (Shea and Kohl,1990, 1991), absent in the target article, which was designed to uncover how variability rather thanspecificity bestows a skill learning advantage. The initial theorizing of Shea and Kohl (1990, 1991),borrowed from studies targeting the contextual interference (CI) effect, is expanded to considerrecent behavioral and physiological changes associated with superior skill memory resulting fromexperiencing practice variability in an interleaved format. We conclude that variable experiencesscheduled in this format facilitate learning but remain more cautious in regards to the more generalclaim that practice variability advances skill acquisition.

【 授权许可】

CC BY