title: Acquisition of expertise on a difficult perceptual-motor task by an amnesic patient.
abstract: While numerous studies have reported learning of perceptual-motor skills by amnesic patients, few if any have documented the eventual acquisition of expertise on a given task. This paper recounts the learning of the computer game Tetris by a hippocampal amnesic, whose acquisition of the task in a formal evaluation was somewhat slower than that of a comparison group, but who after many hours of self-paced practice achieved expert-level play.
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral Science, Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York, Brooklyn 11235, USA. wwinter@kbcc.cuny.edu
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Winter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000647:Amnesia; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors