Practice makes perfect.

Motor control and learning principles for rehabilitation of upper limb movements after brain injury

The old adage ‘Practice makes perfect’ is perhaps most frequently heard in the context of motor skills. Performance improves when people have the opportunity to try out movements and are given feedback about the outcome of those movements so that they can then revise their movements to seek a better outcome. This is as true of normal skills learning as it is of the recovery across a wide range ...

How Practice Makes Perfect

"Practice makes perfect"...or does it?

un 2 00 4 Perfect random number generator is unnecessary for secure quantum key distribution

Quantum key distribution(QKD) makes it possible for two remotely separated parties do unconditionally secure communications. In principle, the security is guaranteed by the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics: if any third party watches the key, she must disturbs the quantum bits therefore she has a risk to be detected. However, the security in practice is quite different, since many of ...

Excellence in clinical neurosurgery: practice and judgment make perfect.

Having discussed the importance of excellence in research in neurosurgery in my previous lecture, I will now make a strong case for the pursuit of excellence in clinical neurosurgery. Here, the adage ‘‘practice makes perfect’’ will be used time and again to underscore the important roles of repetition of manual and intellectual tasks to achieve excellence in our subspecialty. To this adage, how...