Patterns of Interference in Sequence Learning and Prism Adaptation Inconsistent With the Consolidation Hypothesis
Year: 2002
Type: preprint
Abstract: The studies reported here used an interference paradigm to determine whether a long-term consolidation process (i.e., one lasting from several hours to days) occurs in the learning of two implicit motor skills, learning of a movement sequence and learning of a visuo-motor mapping. Subjects learned one skill and were tested on that skill 48 h later. Between the learning session and test session, some subjects trained on a second skill. The amount of time between the learning of the two skills varied for different subjects. In both the learning of a movement sequence and the learning of a visuo-motor mapping, we found that remote memories were susceptible to interference, but the passage of time did not afford protection from interference. These results are inconsistent with the long-term consolidation of these motor skills. A possible difference between these tasks and those that do show long-term consolidation is that the present tasks are not dynamic motor skills.
Source: Learning & Memory
DOI: 10.1101/lm.50102
Authors: Kelly M. Goedert, Daniel B. Willingham
Institutions: Pacific Lutheran University, University of Virginia
Language: English
Topic: Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W7095363488