The purpose of this study was to determine how individuals learned a motor skill having temporal and spatial parameters. For scores of 10 adult males one-way repeated-measures multivariate analysis indicated that subjects learned the skill but follow-up analysis showed acquisition occurred on accuracy only. Some processing limitations were possible with the number of trials a possible limiting factor.
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