Genetic and environmental contributions to the acquisition of a motor skill
@article{Fox1996GeneticAE, title={Genetic and environmental contributions to the acquisition of a motor skill}, author={P. Fox and S. Hershberger and T. Bouchard}, journal={Nature}, year={1996}, volume={384}, pages={356-358} }
PRACTICE, with feedback, is a fundamental variable that influences the aquisition of motor skills1: with it, everyone improves, but some improve more than others. This simple fact has led to frequent debate over the relative importance of genetic and environmental influences on motor learning. In principle these factors could influence subjects' initial level of proficiency, their rate of improvement or their final level of attainment. The problem has been investigated using the rotary pursuit… CONTINUE READING
Topics from this paper
94 Citations
Heritability of motor control and motor learning
- Medicine
- Physiological reports
- 2013
- 17
- Highly Influenced
- PDF
A Review of Environmental Contributions to Childhood Motor Skills
- Medicine
- Journal of child neurology
- 2014
- 27
The genetic architecture of correlations between perceptual timing, motor timing, and intelligence
- Psychology
- 2016
- 11
Genetic basis in motor skill and hand preference for tool use in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
- Psychology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- 2015
- 30
- PDF
Genetic variation in dopamine‐related gene expression influences motor skill learning in mice
- Psychology, Medicine
- Genes, brain, and behavior
- 2013
- 22
Prefrontal lesions impair the implicit and explicit learning of sequences on visuomotor tasks
- Psychology
- Experimental Brain Research
- 2001
- 42
References
SHOWING 1-8 OF 8 REFERENCES
Genetic and extragenetic variance in motor performance.
- Biology, Medicine
- Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae
- 1977
- 15
Sources of human psychological differences: the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart.
- Medicine, Psychology
- Science
- 1990
- 1,195
- PDF
Emergenesis. Genetic traits that may not run in families.
- Biology, Medicine
- The American psychologist
- 1992
- 159
- PDF
Acquisition of pursuit tracking skill under extended training as a joint function of sex and initial ability.
- Psychology
- 1970
- 35
Abilities at different stages of practice in rotary pursuit performance.
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of experimental psychology
- 1960
- 87