Our ESR11-Marijn Hafkamp and his supervisors published a new article last week entitle: “Perceptuomotor skill acquisition in a solo manual ball-and-beam task with varying accuracy requirements”.
In this work, Marijn used the manual ball-and-beam task on individual skill acquisition with the goal to characterize the behavioral dynamics that arise from learning to couple (ball motion) perception and (beam motion) action.
Marijn found stable inter-individual differences in the movement strategies adopted that were uncorrelated with the number of target hits on a trial. The work indicates that multiple movement strategies may lead to success on the task, while individual skill acquisition was characterized by the refinement of behavioral dynamics that emerged in an early stage of learning. The researchers speculate that such differences in individual strategies on the task may affect the interpersonal coordination that arises in joint-action performances on the task.
You can find the fill article here: Frontiers | Perceptuomotor skill acquisition in a solo manual ball-and-beam task with varying accuracy requirements (frontiersin.org)
Congratulations to the team!