Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!milton!wex@sitting.pws.bull.com From: wex@sitting.pws.bull.com (Alan Wexelblat) Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds Subject: Re: Brain/Environment "bottleneck" Message-ID: Date: 4 Mar 90 00:31:29 GMT References: <2193@milton.acs.washington.edu> Sender: hlab@milton.acs.washington.edu Organization: Bull Worldwide Information Systems Lines: 15 Approved: hitl@hardy.u.washington.edu Jan Mikovsky was asking about the ability to do routine things or well-practiced things without having to expend higher-order brain power. Look up research on "muscle memory." That's the term I've seen used to describe the way non-obvious physical actions are mapped into semantic actions (such as touch-typing). One of the cyberspace navigation techniques invented by Kim Fairchild and myself depends on muscle memory. It works moderately well. -- --Alan Wexelblat internet: wex@pws.bull.com Bull HN Information Systems Usenet: spdcc.com!know!wex phone: (508) 671-7485 Adapt, adopt, improvise!