Older adults can learn to learn new motor skills
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Older adults can learn to learn new motor skills.
Many studies have demonstrated that aging is associated with declines in skill acquisition. In the current study, we tested whether older adults could acquire general, transferable knowledge about skill learning processes. Older adult participants learned five different motor tasks. Two older adult control groups performed the same number of trials, but learned only one task. The experimental g...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioural Brain Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0166-4328
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.05.024