This study uses the example of the tennis serve to investigate the
nature and role of long-term memory in skilled athletic performance.
Information processing linked with complex movements has always been
notoriously difficult to investigate. However, a new experimental
method revealed that athletic expertise was characterized by well-integrated
networks of so-called basic action concepts (BACs) that each corresponded
to functionally meaningful submovements. In high-level experts, these
representational frameworks were organized in a distinctive hierarchical
tree-like structure, were remarkably similar between individuals
and were well matched with the functional and biomechanical demands
of the task. In comparison, action representations in low-level players
and nonplayers were organized less hierarchically, were more variable
between persons and were less well matched with functional and biomechanical
demands. It is concluded that, in concert with situational goals
and constraints, movement representations of this kind in long-term
memory might provide the basis for action control in skilled voluntary
movements in the form of suitably organized perceptual-cognitive
reference structures.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Schack:2006
%A Schack, Thomas
%A Mechsner, Franz
%D 2006
%J Neuroscience Letters
%K Action Cognitive Long-term Motor behavior; control; grammar; learning; memory; programs representations;
%P 7781
%T Representation of motor skills in human long-term memory
%V 391
%X This study uses the example of the tennis serve to investigate the
nature and role of long-term memory in skilled athletic performance.
Information processing linked with complex movements has always been
notoriously difficult to investigate. However, a new experimental
method revealed that athletic expertise was characterized by well-integrated
networks of so-called basic action concepts (BACs) that each corresponded
to functionally meaningful submovements. In high-level experts, these
representational frameworks were organized in a distinctive hierarchical
tree-like structure, were remarkably similar between individuals
and were well matched with the functional and biomechanical demands
of the task. In comparison, action representations in low-level players
and nonplayers were organized less hierarchically, were more variable
between persons and were less well matched with functional and biomechanical
demands. It is concluded that, in concert with situational goals
and constraints, movement representations of this kind in long-term
memory might provide the basis for action control in skilled voluntary
movements in the form of suitably organized perceptual-cognitive
reference structures.
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abstract = {This study uses the example of the tennis serve to investigate the
nature and role of long-term memory in skilled athletic performance.
Information processing linked with complex movements has always been
notoriously difficult to investigate. However, a new experimental
method revealed that athletic expertise was characterized by well-integrated
networks of so-called basic action concepts (BACs) that each corresponded
to functionally meaningful submovements. In high-level experts, these
representational frameworks were organized in a distinctive hierarchical
tree-like structure, were remarkably similar between individuals
and were well matched with the functional and biomechanical demands
of the task. In comparison, action representations in low-level players
and nonplayers were organized less hierarchically, were more variable
between persons and were less well matched with functional and biomechanical
demands. It is concluded that, in concert with situational goals
and constraints, movement representations of this kind in long-term
memory might provide the basis for action control in skilled voluntary
movements in the form of suitably organized perceptual-cognitive
reference structures.},
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timestamp = {2009-06-26T15:25:53.000+0200},
title = {Representation of motor skills in human long-term memory},
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