Motor learning enables people to adapt to changing environments and a changing body, as they learn to move differently in response to, for example, uneven surfaces or a shift in body weight.

In this context, training a hybrid sequence, for example consisting of an actual arm movement towards an object and an imagined grasping movement of the fingers, may promote relearning of the grasping ...

Climbing fiber activity gates the acquisition phase of motor learning but becomes nonessential for memory consolidation or performance once proficiency is achieved.

Semi-supervised ‘online’ learning, however, in which feedback is provided for only some of the examples, is a better description of real-life visual and motor learning (see review in this ...

By using a new data-driven approach to analyse full- body movement during motor learning in the real world, the researchers both demonstrated the involvement of the whole body in the learning ...

Violinists, surgeons and gamers can benefit from physical exercise both before and after practicing their new skills. The same holds true for anyone seeking to improve their fine motor skills.

In a study published Thursday, researchers use a novel non-invasive deep brain electrical stimulation to enhance motor learning in older adults.

The effect of variability on learning is recognized in many fields: learning is harder when input is variable, but variability leads to better generalization of the knowledge we learned. In this ...

image: Motor learning involves two classes of synapses that are important for “motor learning” and “motor memory. view more Credit: Koida Kowa Okazaki, Japan – When we learn a motor ...

Spitzer and Li reported their findings in Nature Communications, in a paper titled, “ Exercise enhances motor skill learning by neurotransmitter switching in the adult midbrain.” It’s well ...

Susanne Morton has spent more than two decades studying motor learning. Morton is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy (PT) at the University of Delaware’s College of Health ...