Role of kinesthetic and spatial-visual abilities in perceptual motor learning.

Subjects were administered a spatial test and a new measure of "kinaesthetic sensitivity" and then received extended practice on a Two-Hand Coordination (THC) task. The results confirm the hypothesis that sensitivity to proprioceptive cues are more important later in perceptual motor-learning while sensitivity to exteroceptive (spatial-visual) are more critical earlier in learning. The study extends previous work which showed that abilities which contribute to learning early in practice may be different from those which facilitate later learning.