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A short-term motor retention paradigm was used to examine the effect of interpolated movements on the recall of individual distance- and location-cue information. Subjects were instructed to learn either a distance or a location cue during the execution of simple, discrete original movements. Interpolated movements were then made which varied and repeated distance and location either individually or jointly. Changes in variable, absolute, and algebraic error from immediate to delayed recall were totally determined by interpolation of the individual instructed cue. No added recall changes were produced by interpolation of noninstructed cues. The data were interpreted as supporting the presence of a stimulus-selection process that dissociates kinesthetic information as a function of instructional set. The effects of inter-poated movements, then, are determined partially by this selection process.
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This research represents a portion of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree at New Mexico State University under the supervision of Gordon B. Harding. It was presented at the meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association held in Chicago, May 1977.
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Hagman, J.D. Specific-cue effects of interpolated movements on distance and location retention in short-term motor memory. Memory & Cognition 6, 432–437 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197476
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