@article{ref1,
title="Aging and longitudinal change in perceptual-motor skill acquisition in healthy adults",
journal="Journals of gerontology. Series B: psychological sciences and social sciences",
year="2005",
author="Rodrigue, Karen M. and Kennedy, Kristen M. and Raz, Naftali",
volume="60",
number="4",
pages="174-181",
abstract="Knowledge about aging of perceptual-motor skills is based almost exclusively on cross-sectional studies. We examined age-related changes in the retention of mirror-tracing skills in healthy adults who practiced for 3 separate days at baseline and retrained 5 years later at follow-up. Overall, the speed and accuracy of an acquired skill were partially retained after a 5-year interim, although the same asymptote was reached. Analyses with individual learning curves indicated that the effects of age on mirror-tracing speed were greater at longitudinal follow-up than at baseline, with older adults requiring more training to reach asymptote. Thus, although the long-term retention of acquired skills declines with age, older adults still retain the ability to learn the skill. Moreover, those who maintained a processing speed comparable with that of the younger participants evidenced no age-related performance decrements on the mirror-drawing task.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1079-5014",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}