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  title info:
    title: Procedural Skill Initiation, Chunks & Execution; Contributions of Offline Consolidation
  name:
    name part: Bhatia, Sanjeev Rai
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Wright, David
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: It has been suggested that improvement in the performance of many motor sequence tasks such as playing musical instruments, operating complex machinery or tools, and/or performing a variety of athletic activities results from the learner̕ s ability to parse the movement into fundamental action primitives called motor chunks. Moreover, it has been suggested that the organization of motor chunks within a sequential behavior can be influenced by consolidation occurring outside the boundary of practice during which reorganization can occur leading to faster sequence production. The present study involved modest practice of a discrete sequence production task (DSPT) followed by subsequent assessment of performance of this task either immediately after the completion of practice or after a 24-hr delay. Of critical interest was the change in performance from the end of training to the test phase in three features of the sequence implementation namely sequence initiation, motor chunk transition, and element execution components. It was anticipated that motor chunk transition would be susceptible to significantly greater offline enhancement in the 24-hr delayed test case. Based on the extant literature it was also expected that sequence initiation and/or execution processes may also be sensitive to offline consolidation. No evidence emerged that supported the proposal that motor chunk transitions revealed additional gains following a longer interval between training and test. It is possible this effect was underestimated because of some imprecision in the manner in which motor chunk transitions were identified. There was clear evidence for offline gains for both sequence initiation and element execution processes. These data are difficult to interpret within the framework of a number of contemporary accounts of sequence production such as the dual-processor model in which sequence production is governed by a cognitive and motor processor. The electronic version of this disse…
  note: by Sanjeev Rai Bhatia.
  note: "Major Subject: Kinesiology"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Master of Science Texas A & M University 2013 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149286
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major Kinesiology
  subject:
    topic: Chunking
  subject:
    topic: Motor Sequence Learning
  subject:
    topic: Procedural skill
  subject:
    topic: Offline enhancement
  subject:
    topic: Consolidation
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/149286
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 140130
    record change date: 20151206091642.0
    record identifier: in00003428212
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng