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.

For every motor skill you've ever learned, whether it's walking or watchmaking, there is a small ensemble of neurons in your brain that makes that movement happen. Our brains trigger these ...

Acquiring new motor skills involves a range of learning processes that are related to the gathering of task-relevant sensory information, decision making and the selection of strategies. Wolpert ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Researchers uncover dopamine's essential role in motor skill acquisition, highlighting its influence on neural network reorganization during learning.

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

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 ...