2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The manuscript reviews the theoretical underpinnings proposed to account for the production and effector transfer of simple and more complex movement sequences. Special attention is given to the Hikosaka perspective, which, in our opinion, has the potential to provide, with some modifications, a unifying way to understand the various factors that influence the coding and effector transfer of a large range of movement sequences. In addition, we discuss how the sequence link between subsequences is disrupted by effector transfer, the finding that multiple representations can be used to benefit transfer, the relationship between implicit-explicit coding and the coordinate system used to code the sequence, and lastly, we discuss the role handedness and hemispheric asymmetries play in the effector transfer of movement sequences.
