Project

Human Perception

Perceptual motor learning

Co-ordinator:	J.J. Koenderink, A.M.L. Kappers
Investigator:	J.J.M. Roessingh
Period:	01-01-2003 / 31-12-2003
Collaboration:
Funding:	UU

Description:
Research concerns experimental investigations into the acquisition of high performance skills. In this context a high performance skill has been defined (Schneider, 1985) as one for which (1) more than 100 hours of specialist training are required, (2) substantial numbers of individuals fail to develop proficiency, and (3) the performance of the expert is qualitatively different from that of the novice.
The research focuses on the perceptual-motor aspects of those high performance skills, with a particular interest in how certain flying tasks in an aircraft are learnt. The overall research question concerns the nature of the skill acquisition process and how this process is influenced by the information available - or presented - to the trainee. Current effort (2001) is on modelling perceptual motor learning behaviour, to predict the speed of learning and to validate this model with the data, collected in laboratory- and field-experiments.