Within-session and one-week practice effects on a motor task in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Practice effects on neuropsychological tests, which are improvements in test scores due to repeated exposure to testing materials, are robust in healthy elders, but muted in older adults with cognitive disorders. Conversely, few studies have investigated practice effects on motor tasks involving procedural memory, particularly across test–retest periods exceeding 24 hours. The current study examined one-week practice effects on a novel upper...