ABSTRACT
The performance of a skill is influenced, and often determined by the information provided as feedback from an external source, such as a supervisor, or expert. One class of such information is augmented feedback — movementrelated information about the task, which supplements a performer’s intrinsic feedback. Over the past century or so researchers have examined the various aspects associated with the informational content of augmented feedback, the schedules to present this information, the temporal placement of this feedback, and plausible theoretical explanations that describe how feedback affects skilled performance (for a review, see Schmidt and Lee 1999). In this chapter we discuss the various classes and experimental methods used to study augmented feedback, then present some of the primary laws regarding how augmented feedback influences performance and learning, and end with a description of some explanations that serve as a basis for applying feedback to human performance.
