This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are later changed
as a result of this learning. Nearly all of our behaviors are influenced by prior learning …

Thirty-six participants practiced a task in which they continuously cycled through a fixed
series of nine keypresses, each carried out by a single finger (cf. Keele & Summers, 1976) …

It is well known that movement sequences are initiated and executed more slowly as they
become longer. Those effects of sequence length, which have been found to lessen with …

We examined the allocation of attention during the preparation of sequences of manual
pointing movements in a dual task paradigm. As the primary task, the participants had to …

Individuals with Parkinson's disease have difficulty initiating and performing complex,
sequential movements. Practice generally leads to faster initiation and execution of …

Participants practiced two discrete six-key sequences for a total of 420 trials. The 1× 6
sequence had a unique order of key presses while the 2× 3 sequence involved repetition of …

The balance of trained ballet dancers and non-dancer controls was mechanically perturbed
in order to evaluate the time of onset of muscle activation and the consistency of muscle …

Iwish to thank the Selection Committee and the Execu-tive Committee ofthe Research
Consortium for inviting me to present the 12th lecture in the Charles H. McCloy Research …

A series of 8 experiments examined the phenomenon that a rapid aimed hand movement is
executed faster when it is performed as a single, isolated movement than when it is followed …

Five experiments explored the influence of repeated phonemes on the production of short
utterances. In Experiment 1 coloured object naming showed faster latencies when colour …