Rest and warm-up in bilateral transfer on a pursuit rotor task.

Abstract

Pursuit rotor learning provides possibilities for the study of a special kind of reminiscence-bilateral reminiscence-which has been reported in a number of recent papers. Representative studies are those of Ammons and Ammons (4), Grice and Reynolds (6), Irion and Gustafson (9), Kimble (10), and Rockway (13). In pursuit rotor studies of bilateral reminiscence, Ss perform with one hand prior to rest and change to the other handthe transfer hand-following rest. The bilateral reminiscence phenomenon has been studied principally with a view to localizing reactive inhibition (6, 9, 10). Results from the investigations of such presumed reactive inhibition effects suggest that these effects are not specific to the effectors exercised prior to rest but may involve more central processes. Because the different experiments have employed techniques which vary in such respects as prerest and postrest hand, trial duration, intervals between trials, duration of practice, and sex of Ss, the results are not strictly comparable. However, it does appear that bilateral reminiscence is similar, as a distribution of practice phenomenon, to the earlier discovered unilateral reminiscence, although, as shown by Grice

The second facet of forgetting: A review of warm-up decrement.

“…No effects were observed from any of the experimental treatments. Walker, DeSoto, and Shelly (1957) performed a bilateral transfer experiment on the Rotary Pursuit Test. Original practice was with one hand and, following rest, practice was resumed with the other hand.…”