Investigation of procedural skills degradation from different modalities

摘要: Can we help people forget less by knowing how they learn? decrease forgetting modifying what These have been long-standing questions in applied cognitive psychology. This paper reports a study designed to investigate procedural skills degradation set of spreadsheet tasks. The task can be taught and performed as knowledge that are declarative or procedural, perceptual-motor cognitive. To examine the effect these characteristics on learning forgetting, one group participants used keybased commands complete task, other novel mouse menus do task. Participants were able learn well four sessions. Retention intervals (6-day 18-day) showed clear effects amount forgetting. paradigm measure terms modalities skill types. We found evidence menu mode was not better than keystrokes. Furthermore, different retention intervals.