How is a motor skill learned? Change and invariance at the levels of task success and trajectory control

• Published in: Journal of neurophysiology Vol. 108; no. 2; pp. 578 - 594
• Main Authors: Shmuelof, Lior, Krakauer, John W., Mazzoni, Pietro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Physiological Society 15.07.2012
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Biofeedback, Psychology - physiology; Female; Humans; Learning - physiology; Male; Motor Skills - physiology; Movement - physiology; Task Performance and Analysis
• ISSN: 0022-3077; 1522-1598; 1522-1598
• DOI: 10.1152/jn.00856.2011

The public pays large sums of money to watch skilled motor performance. Notably, however, in recent decades motor skill learning (performance improvement beyond baseline levels) has received less experimental attention than motor adaptation (return to baseline performance in the setting of an extern...