Training generally-capable agents with reinforcement learning (RL) remains a significant
challenge. A promising avenue for improving the robustness of RL agents is through the use …

Automaticity is a core construct underpinning theoretical accounts of human performance
and cognition. In spite of this, its current conceptualisation is plagued by circularity …

Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes
underlying human skill acquisition. As the first text to outline the multidisciplinary ecological …

This is an upper-level undergraduate or graduate textbook for courses in human movement
and skill acquisition. A professional reference for movement practitioners and scientists …

The skill-performance relationship is a cornerstone of a meritocratic society. People are
selected for schools, colleges and jobs based on the premise that more skillful individuals …

Researchers studying adaptive behavior in human movement systems have traditionally
employed simplified, laboratory-based movement models in an effort to conserve …

In the present study, we analyzed data from a very large sample (N= 854,064) of players of
an online game involving rapid perception, decision making, and motor responding. Use of …

This study investigated how novices re-organized motor system degrees of freedom when
practicing a multi-articular discrete kicking task. Four male participants practiced a soccer …

This study sought to characterize changes in the synergy of joint motions related to learning
a Frisbee throwing task and, in particular, how the use of abundant solutions to joint …

In this paper, we review current knowledge on tool use development in infants in order to
provide relevant information to cognitive developmental roboticists seeking to design …