Motor skill acquisition, auditory distractors, and the encoding specificity hypothesis.
28 women and 28 men threw a paddleball at a target in 4 conditions of noise and quiet, being given 150 trials on 2 days. Analysis of absolute constant error and total error indicated the encoding-specificity hypothesis was not supported and no transfer was noted across conditions, perhaps because the noise was not demanding enough.
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Zinman College of Physical Education, Psychomotor Laboratory, Wingate Institute, Netanya, Israel.
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D000328:Adult; D001245:Association Learning; D001288:Attention; D001307:Auditory Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D011939:Mental Recall; D009048:Motor Skills; D009622:Noise; D009949:Orientation; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012931:Social Environment