High contextual interference improves retention in motor learning: systematic review and meta-analysis

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-65753-3" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-65753-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-65753-3" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-024-65753-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

High contextual interference improves retention in motor learning: systematic review and meta-analysis

Original language description

The effect of practice schedule on retention and transfer has been studied since the first publication on contextual interference (CI) in 1966. However, strongly advocated by scientists and practitioners, the CI effect also aroused some doubts. Therefore, our objective was to review the existing literature on CI and to determine how it affects retention in motor learning. We found 1255 articles in the following databases: Scopus, EBSCO, Web of Science, PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, supplemented by the Google Scholar search engine. We screened full texts of 294 studies, of which 54 were included in the meta-analysis. In the meta-analyses, two different models were applied, i.e., a three-level mixed model and random-effects model with averaged effect sizes from single studies. According to both analyses, high CI has a medium beneficial effect on the whole population. These effects were statistically significant. We found that the random practice schedule in laboratory settings effectively improved motor skills retention. On the contrary, in the applied setting, the beneficial effect of random practice on the retention was almost negligible. The random schedule was more beneficial for retention in older adults (large effect size) and in adults (medium effect size). In young participants, the pooled effect size was negligible and statically insignificant.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Nature Scientific Reports

ISSN

2045-2322

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

45

Pages from-to

15974

UT code for WoS article

001270506400050

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85198094641