Cognition and motor skill learning

Sequential motor skill: Cognition, perception, and action

Sleep and Motor Skill Learning

The improvement of a perceptual or motor skill continues after training has ended. The central question is whether this improvement is just a function of time or whether sleep, a certain circadian phase, or their interaction (sleep occurring in a particular circadian phase) is favorable to the reprocessing of recent memory traces. In this issue of Neuron, provide behavioral evidence that most o...

Information-Theoretic Motor Skill Learning

While there has been recent successes in learning single control policies, there are several several open challenges in robot motor skill learning. Firstly, many motor tasks can be solved in multiple ways, and, hence, we need to be able to learn each of these solutions as separate options from which the agent can choose from. Furthermore, we need to learn how to adapt an option to the current s...

Motor Skill Learning In Children

One of the recent major developments in the understanding of motor skill learning in children has been the establishment of schema theory (Schmidt, 1975). Few theories of motor behavior have stimulated as much inquiry and had the general support from the scientific community as this notion. This article presented a synthesis of the theoretical framework and implications for program application ...

Neuroplasticity Subserving Motor Skill Learning

Recent years have seen significant progress in our understanding of the neural substrates of motor skill learning. Advances in neuroimaging provide new insight into functional reorganization associated with the acquisition, consolidation, and retention of motor skills. Plastic changes involving structural reorganization in gray and white matter architecture that occur over shorter time periods ...