• More stable performance: Based on the perspective of learning motor skills by analogy

    Subjects: Psychology >> Applied Psychology submitted time 2021-11-05

    Abstract: Motor learning by analogy is based on the principle that a simple biomechanical metaphor that makes motor behaviour easier to understand by integrating the complex rule structure of motor skills. In the process of motor skill learning, performance in response to instructions presented as an analogy is more robust under pressure, distracting situations and high-complexity decision-making conditions. However, the effect of analogy learning is affected by an individual’s motor level, the instruction content and an individual’s cognitive factors. This review contends that previous studies may have exaggerated the effect of working memory in analogy learning and proposes the attention focus-reinvestment-working memory model of motor skill learning by analogy in which attention focus, reinvestment and working memory jointly affect the improved performance in analogy learning. Further research can be carried out to balance the number of instructions, change the method of instruction provision, standardize the compilation and evaluation of instructions, focus on the selection of exercise tasks and elucidate the neural mechanism of analogy learning. "