Can Training be Transfered from One Oculomotor System to Another?

Abstract

“Transfer of training” refers to the effects of prior training on subsequent performance of a task, the latter differing in some way from the task utilized during the original training. Transfer of training in the intact CNS has long been studied by psychologists, yielding findings that were ambivalent to later investigators: that it is possible to produce positive (increased) as well as negative (decreased) transfer effects in motor-learning situations. Later studies formulated the conditions of transfer where subjects under the more complex input conditions were able to learn most or all of the skill components required under less complex input conditions, while the reverse was not true.