Abstract
Abstract Performances of 26 athletically high-skilled (HS) and 26 athletically low-skilled (LS) subjects on 6 novel motor skills were compared to extend insight as to the cause of LS's poorly developed neuromotor coordination. The skills varied from those needing finger and hand dexterity, only, to those involving gross bodily actions. It was hypothesized that LS would tend to reveal slower learning than HS on all tasks if their motor disturbance was a generalized phenomenon but would differ from HS only on the athletically structured tasks if their motor learning difficulties were primarily a matter of limited play experience. Both groups showed similar learning on 4 of the 6 tasks. HS had significantly greater improvement scores than LS on two athletically oriented skills. It was concluded that the motor learning difficulties of LS are problems mostly specific to the physical education and athletic situations.
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