Section 8a: Motor Learning – Part 1
1. How are improvement, consistency, stability, persistence, and adaptability of learning assessed?
2. Explain the difference between explicit and implicit learning and how to measure them in a sensorimotor adaptation paradigm.
3. Explain consolidation, anterograde interference, and retrograde interference.
4. Describe experimental evidence for and against consolidation.
5. Compare Fitts and Posner’s model, Gentile’s two-stage model, and Schmidt’s schema theory of learning. Apply each to learning a motor skill of your choice.
6. Describe experimental evidence for the roles of the PPC, cerebellum, M1, basal ganglia, and SMA in motor learning.