Reward boosts reinforcement-based motor learning

P Vassiliadis, G Derosiere, C Dubuc, A Lete… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Besides relying heavily on sensory and reinforcement feedback, motor skill learning may
also depend on the level of motivation experienced during training. Yet, how motivation by …

Implicit reward-based motor learning

NM van Mastrigt, JS Tsay, T Wang, G Avraham… - Experimental Brain …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

Reinforcement-based processes actively regulate motor exploration along redundant solution manifolds

AM Roth, JA Calalo, R Lokesh… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Failure induces task-irrelevant exploration during a stencil task

K van der Kooij, NM van Mastrigt… - Experimental Brain …, 2023 - Springer
During reward-based motor tasks, performance failure leads to an increase in movement
variability along task-relevant dimensions. These increases in movement variability are …

[HTML][HTML] Reinforcement learning is impaired in the sub-acute post-stroke period

M Branscheidt, AM Hadjiosif, MA Anaya, J Keller… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Neurorehabilitation approaches are frequently predicated on motor learning
principles. However, much is left to be understood of how different kinds of motor learning …

Highlights from the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement

K Love, D Cao, JC Chang… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
34 The Society of Neural Control of Movement (NCM) held its 32nd annual meeting in 35
beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in April of 2023. Over 350 researchers, 36 …

Conditions under which college students cease learning

J Coldren - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Effective learning involves the acquisition of information toward a goal and
cessation upon reaching that goal. Whereas the process of learning acquisition is well …

The influence of movement speed on reward-based motor learning

NM van Mastrigt, K van der Kooij, JBJ Smeets - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Human movement is inevitably variable. This variability can be seen as a constraint to
overcome, but it may also be a feature: being variable may result in the discovery of better …

Learning New Locomotor Patterns Using Repetition and Reward

JM Wood - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Abstract In the 2021 Olympic games, Sydney McLaughlin won the gold medal in the 400-
meter hurdle race by learning to become equally skilled at jumping over the hurdles with …

Elementary Dynamic Actions: key structures for contact-rich manipulation

J Lachner, MC Nah, F Tessari, N Hogan - IROS 2023 Workshop on … - openreview.net
Despite a slow neuromuscular system, humans achieve impressive dexterity in physical
interactions. It is hypothesized that this is possible through" motor primitives," basic building …