Neither consolidation-disruption nor breakdown-of-inhibition hypotheses are supported for the finger-tapping task; only tenuous support exists for the resource hypothesis¶

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q2 i? Because late-placed declarative tasks produced no impairment, the authors reject the consolidation-disruption and breakdown-of-inhibition hypotheses for the FTT; the early-training effect in Experiment 3 gives only tenuous support to the resource hypothesis. → Mohan W. Gupta and Timothy C. Rickard 2025

Evidence¶

Mohan W. Gupta and Timothy C. Rickard 2025¶

Mohan W. Gupta and Timothy C. Rickard. (2025). The Effects of Declarative Learning on Early and Late Motor Skill Learning. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00386-3

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Discussion-level interpretation (type e) of the three-experiment pattern: the authors state they "found no support for either the consolidation disruption or the breakdown of inhibition hypothesis", while Experiment 3's weak, transient early-training effect gives only tenuous support to the resource hypothesis.

"we found no support for either the consolidation disruption or the breakdown of inhibition hypothesis, and only tenuous support for the cognitive resource hypothesis in Experimen t 3"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• A declarative task placed early in training is associated with a small, transient reduction in post-rest gain (Experiment 3), with only weak statistical support — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• An intervening declarative cued-recall task placed late in finger-tapping training does not reduce the post-rest performance gain (Experiment 1) — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Trial-level reactive inhibition (progressively larger sequence RTs within trials) emerges during training and dissipates across rest breaks in the FTT — related
• Even a substantially increased declarative-load intervening task placed late in training does not impair the post-rest gain (Experiment 2) — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• No significant association exists between intervening-task performance and post-rest motor gain in any experiment — a narrower finding that bears on this claim