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Pretrained male college students (N = 100) on sequences where (a) run sequences were learnable but position sequences were not, (b) position sequences were learnable but run sequences were not, (c) both run and position sequences were learnable, or (d) neither run nor position sequences were learnable. Controls were not pretrained. All Ss were then transferred to a common sequence which was partially learnable in terms of run cues and partially learnable in terms of position cues. Training data show that Ss learned the appropriate aspects of their sequences and that position cues were easier to learn than run cues. Ss performed fairly well on the learnable aspects of the transfer sequence, but position cues were again dominant over run cues. Ss showed negative transfer with respect to cues they had to ignore on their training sequences. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)