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Aging affects motor learning but not savings at transfer of learning

Rachael D. Seidler

Department of Psychology, Division of Kinesiology, Neuroscience Program, Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

Two important components of skill learning are the learning process itself (motor acquisition) and the ability to transfer what has been learned to new task variants (motor transfer). Many studies have documented age-related declines in the ability to learn new manual motor skills. In this study, I tested whether the degree of savings at transfer of learning is similarly affected by advancing age. Young and older adults made aiming movements with a joystick to hit targets presented on a computer screen, with real-time feedback display of their movement. They adapted to three different rotations of the feedback display in a sequential fashion, with return to the normal feedback display between each. Adaptation performance was better when it was preceded by other adaptive experiences, regardless of age.

E-mail rseidler{at}umich.edu; fax (734) 936-1925.

Article published online in January 2007. Article and publication date are at http://www.learnmem.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/lm.394707

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