%0 Journal Article
%T Effects of practice schedule on the adaptive process of motor learning
%A Corr¨ºa
%A Umberto Cesar
%A Ugrinowitsch
%A Herbert
%A Benda
%A Rodolfo Novellino
%A Tani
%A Go
%J Revista Portuguesa de Ci¨ºncias do Desporto
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this study had as objective to investigate the effects of practice schedule on the adaptive process of motor learning. the experimental design consisted of four practice groups (constant, random, constant-random and random-constant), and two learning phases (stabilization and adaptation). in three experiments, children performed a complex task of coincident timing, in which the varied practice was manipulated in terms of visual stimulus (experiment 1), movement pattern (experiment 2), and a combination of both (experiment 3). in experiment 1, the constant, constant-random, and random-constant groups showed better performance in the adaptation phase than did the random group. in experiment 2, the constant and constant-random groups performed better than did the others. and, in experiment 3, the constant-random group demonstrated better performance than the others. overall results indicated that, during the adaptive process of motor skill acquisition, constant and constant-random practice, were superior to random and random-constant practice.
%K practice schedule
%K motor learning
%K adaptive process
%K non-equilibrium model.
%U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1645-05232010000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en