Coordination dynamics of learning and transfer: Collective and component levels.

Abstract

The dynamics of learning a new coordinated behavior was examined by requiring participants to perform a visually specified phase relationship between the hands. Results showed that learning may involve qualitative or quantitative alterations in the layout of the coordination dynamics depending on whether such dynamics are bistable or multistable before exposure to the learning task. In both cases, the process stabilized the to-be-learned behavior and its symmetry partner, even though the latter had not actually been practiced. Kinematic analyses of hand motion showed that previously existing coordination tendencies were exploited during learning in order to match visual requirements. These findings and the concepts presented here provide a framework for understanding how learning occurs in the context of previous experience and allow individual differences in learning to be tackled explicitly.

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