Greetings All,

From a recent blogpost on the MoreThanReflexes website:  

Motor Learning Terms of the Day 

motor forgetting:  Skill decay, or decreased speed and accuracy for the task.  

interference theory:  A theory that forgetting is caused by interference from other learned information/experiences.  

Two major theories on forgetting, including motor forgetting or skill decay, are: 

1) trace decay (decay of the memory trace) due to lack of practice, whether this lack of practice takes place in good health or due to illness or injury, and 

2) trace decay subsequent to an interference effect.  

A memory trace is a group of neurons, interconnected and encoded for specific memories, including motor memories.       

In the 1995 paper by Neifert, Lawrence, and Seacat, “Nipple Confusion:  Toward a Formal Definition”, the authors discuss interference as a factor in observable breastfeeding difficulties that often follow an infant’s learning experience with an artificial nipple.   

For more information on motor learning and motor control within the context of the primitive survival reflexes, please visit the MoreThanReflexes website at http://www.morethanreflexes.org.

With best regards,

Debbie

Debra Swank, RN BSN IBCLC
MoreThanReflexes Education
Ocala, Florida USA
http://www.morethanreflexes.org/blog/

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