Motor learning encompasses a wide range of phenomena, ranging from relatively low-level
mechanisms for maintaining calibration of our movements, to making high-level cognitive …

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 …

Recent studies have demonstrated that task success signals can modulate learning during
sensorimotor adaptation tasks, primarily through engaging explicit processes. Here, we …

Reward and punishment have long been recognized as potent modulators of human
behavior. Although reinforcement learning is a significant motor learning process, the exact …

We may be motivated to engage in a certain motor activity because it is instrumental to
obtaining reward (eg, money) or because we enjoy the activity, making it intrinsically …

Human motor learning is governed by a suite of interacting mechanisms each one of which
modifies behavior in distinct ways and rely on different neural circuits. In recent years, much …

Whether walking, running, slithering, or flying, organisms display a remarkable ability to
move through complex and uncertain environments. In particular, animals have evolved to …

The unpredictable nature of our world can introduce a variety of errors in our actions,
including sensory prediction errors (SPEs) and task performance errors (TPEs). SPEs arise …

Sensorimotor plasticity allows the nervous system to set up appropriate motor and sensory
compensations when individuals face changing demands in a given motor task. A much …

Exploration in reward-based motor learning is observable in experimental data as increased
variability. In order to quantify exploration, we compare three methods for estimating other …