Genetic and environmental contributions to the acquisition of a motor skill.

Abstract:

:Practice, with feedback, is a fundamental variable that influences the aquisition of motor skills: with it, everyone improves, but some improve more than others. This simple fact has led to frequent debate over the relative importance of genetic and environmental influences on motor learning. In principle these factors could influence subjects' initial level of proficiency, their rate of improvement or their final level of attainment. The problem has been investigated using the rotary pursuit (RP) task, in which subjects learn to track a rotating target with a stylus; this is a factorially pure task which is relatively unaffected by cognitive or verbal factors. Earlier studies of twins reared together indicated that heredity was the primary factor responsible for individual differences in motor skill. Here we have studied learning in a sample of monozygotic (MZA) and dizygotic (DZA) twins who had been reared apart. Heritability of performance was high even in the initial phase, and increased with practice. The rate of learning was also significantly heritable. We propose that the effect of practice is to decrease the effect of environmental variation (previous learning) and increase the relative strength of genetic influences on motor performance.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Fox PW,Hershberger SL,Bouchard TJ Jr

doi

10.1038/384356a0

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-11-28 00:00:00

pages

356-8

issue

6607

eissn

0028-0836

issn

1476-4687

journal_volume

384

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