N. Mcnevin et al., THE EFFECTS OF ERRONEOUS KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS ON TRANSFER OF ANTICIPATION TIMING, Research quarterly for exercise and sport, 65(4), 1994, pp. 324-329
Previous research has shown that erroneous knowledge of results (KR) b
iased subjects' performance during retention trials for an anticipatio
n timing task (Buekers, Magill, & Hall, 1992). The present experiment
extended that work by investigating effects on novel transfer. During
acquisition, three groups received either correct KR, erroneous KR, or
50 trials of correct KR followed by 25 trials of erroneous KR, where
KR was the anticipation timing error in milliseconds. Erroneous KR was
the actual timing error + 100 ms. One day later, subjects performed 1
5 trials without KR at each of two novel trackway speeds. Results show
ed that the bias acquired by the All-Erroneous KR condition during acq
uisition generalized across novel trackway speeds while the Mixed-Corr
ect and Erroneous KR condition yielded a nonsignificant trend toward a
response bias.