Learning new letter-like writing patterns explicitly and implicitly in children and adults
Publication year
2018Number of pages
12 p.
Source
Journal of Motor Behavior, 50, 6, (2018), pp. 677-688ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Orthopaedics
Rehabilitation
Journal title
Journal of Motor Behavior
Volume
vol. 50
Issue
iss. 6
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 677
Page end
p. 688
Subject
All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center; Learning and Plasticity; Radboudumc 18: Healthcare improvement science RIHS: Radboud Institute for Health Sciences; Radboudumc 3: Disorders of movement DCMN: Donders Center for Medical NeuroscienceAbstract
A handwriting task was used to test the assumption that explicit learning is dependent on age and working memory, while implicit learning is not. The effect of age was examined by testing both, typically developing children (5-12 years old, n = 81) and adults (n = 27) in a counterbalanced within-subjects design. Participants were asked to repeatedly write letter-like patterns on a digitizer with a non-inking pen. Reproduction of the pattern was better after explicit learning compared to implicit learning. Age had positive effects on both explicit and implicit learning; working memory did not affect learning in either conditions. These results show that it may be more effective to learn writing new letter-like patterns explicitly and that an explicit teaching method is preferred in mainstream primary education.
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