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) …

In sensorimotor adaptation tasks, feedback delays can cause significant reductions in the
rate of learning. This constraint is puzzling given that many skilled behaviors have inherently …

Individual differences in motor learning ability are widely acknowledged, yet little is known
about the factors that underlie them. Here we explore whether movement-to-movement …

Trial-to-trial variability in the execution of movements and motor skills is ubiquitous and
widely considered to be the unwanted consequence of a noisy nervous system. However …

Motor-skill learning can be accompanied by both increases and decreases in brain activity.
Increases may indicate neural recruitment, while decreases may imply that a region became …

What are the neural mechanisms of skill acquisition? Many studies find that long-term
practice is associated with a functional reorganization of cortical neural activity. However …

Multiple processes may contribute to motor skill acquisition, but it is thought that many of
these processes require sleep or the passage of long periods of time ranging from several …

We propose a new model of motor learning to explain the exceptional dexterity and rapid
adaptation to change, which characterize human motor control. It is based on the brain …

Current theories suggest that an error-driven learning process updates trial-by-trial to
facilitate motor adaptation. How this process interacts with motor cortical preparatory activity …

Recent studies of upper limb movements have provided insights into the computations,
mechanisms, and taxonomy of human sensorimotor learning. Motor tasks differ with respect …