Acquisition and Long-Term Retention of a Gross Motor Skill in Alzheimer's Disease Patients Under Constant and Varied Practice Conditions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12440869 |
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| Authors | Malcolm Dick (corresponding author), M B Dick, Rodman Shankle, R W Shankle, R E Beth (University of Alabama), Cordula Dick‐Muehlke (Orange County Department of Education), C Dick-Muehlke, Carl W Cotman, Mary Louise Kean (University of California, Irvine), M-L Kean |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 51B |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | P103-P111 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journals of Gerontology Series B (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1079-5014 • E-ISSN: 1758-5368 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/geronb/51b.2.p103 |
| PMID | 8785686 |
| OpenAlex | W2150607156 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This study examined the acquisition and long-term retention of a gross motor skill, namely, tossing, in 23 moderately to severely demented Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and 22 health older adults. To identify optimal learning strategies, subjects received 10 weeks of training under either constant or variable practice conditions. Accuracy at the tossing task was assessed immediately, one week, and one month following training. AD patients given constant practice were able to learn and retain the tossing task as well as healthy adults. Although controls performed equally well in both conditions, AD patients showed significantly less improvement when practiced at various distances from the target. By the one-month post-test, these patients had lost any minimal gains achieved through practice. In comparison, AD patients receiving constant practice showed essentially no forgetting across post-tests. The inability to benefit from varied practice suggests that AD patients may have difficulty accessing and/or forming motor schemas
Audiology · Clinical Practice · Cognitive psychology · Constant (computer programming · Developmental psychology · Forgetting · Gross motor skill · Motor Learning · Motor skill · Physical medicine and rehabilitation · Physical therapy · Task (project management · Term (time · Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders · Computer Science · Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research · Medicine · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Neuroscience · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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