No significant association exists between intervening-task performance and post-rest motor gain in any experiment¶
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q3 i? Across all three experiments, post-rest RT gain was not significantly associated with cued-recall or vowel-counting task accuracy. → Mohan W. Gupta and Timothy C. Rickard 2025
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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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Experiment 3 regression analyses of post-rest gain on task accuracy: cued-recall (p = .09, r2 = .055) and vowel counting (p = .06, r2 = .068) both "no significant associations". Experiments 1 and 2 similarly reported no significant associations (e.g., p = .07 and p = .13 in Experiment 1).
"We found no significant associations between post -rest RT gains and performance on the cued -recall task, F(1, 51) = 2.96, p = .09, r2 = .055, nor the vowel counting task, F(1, 50) = 3.67, p = .06, r2 = .068"
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 — related
- Even a substantially increased declarative-load intervening task placed late in training does not impair the post-rest gain (Experiment 2) — related
- An intervening declarative cued-recall task placed late in finger-tapping training does not reduce the post-rest performance gain (Experiment 1) — related
- Trial-level reactive inhibition (progressively larger sequence RTs within trials) emerges during training and dissipates across rest breaks in the FTT — related
- Neither consolidation-disruption nor breakdown-of-inhibition hypotheses are supported for the finger-tapping task; only tenuous support exists for the resource hypothesis — a broader claim this one bears on
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No significant association exists between intervening-task performance and post-rest motor gain in any experiment |
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No significant association exists between intervening-task performance and post-rest motor gain in any experiment |
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