A Model for the Transfer of Perceptual-Motor Skill Learning in Human Behaviors

This paper presents a preliminary model that outlines the mechanisms underlying the transfer of perceptual-motor skill learning in sport and everyday tasks. Perceptual-motor behavior is motivated by performance demands and evolves over time to increase the probability of success through adaptation. Performance demands at the time of an event create a unique transfer domain that specifies a range of potentially successful actions. Transfer comprises anticipatory subconscious and conscious mechanisms. The model also outlines how transfer occurs across a continuum, which depends on the individual's expertise and contextual variables occurring at the incidence of transfer.

Key words:

• anticipation
• expertise
• learning domain
• transfer domain

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Simon M. Rosalie

Please address correspondence concerning this article to Simon Rosalie, Discipline of Exercise Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, P.O. Box 71, Bundoora, VIC 3083, Australia