When children practice a new skill and fail, it is critical for them to explore new strategies to
succeed. How can parents encourage children's exploration? Bridging insights from …

Introduction During practice, learners use available feedback from one trial to develop and
implement motor commands for the next trial. Unsuccessful trials (ie,“misses”) should be …

Binary feedback, providing information solely about task success or failure, can be sufficient
to drive motor learning. While binary feedback can induce explicit adjustments in movement …

From a baby's babbling to a songbird practising a new tune, exploration is critical to motor
learning. A hallmark of exploration is the emergence of random walk behaviour along …

From a game of darts to neurorehabilitation, the ability to explore and fine tune our
movements is critical for success. Past work has shown that exploratory motor behaviour in …

During reward-based motor tasks, performance failure leads to an increase in movement
variability along task-relevant dimensions. These increases in movement variability are …

When a musician practices a new song, hitting a correct note sounds pleasant while striking
an incorrect note sounds unpleasant. Such reward and punishment feedback has been …

When learning a new motor skill, people often must use trial and error to discover which
movement is best. In the reinforcement learning framework, this concept is known as …

Background Clinical decisions regarding ankle-foot-orthosis stiffness in people with calf
muscle weakness are based on immediate evaluations, not taking gait adaptation into …

Childhood is an obvious period for motor learning, since children's musculoskeletal and
nervous systems are still in development. Adults adapt movements based on reward …