Long-and short-term plastic modeling of action prediction abilities in volleyball

C Urgesi, MM Savonitto, F Fabbro, SM Aglioti - Psychological research, 2012 - Springer
Athletes show superior abilities not only in executing complex actions, but also in
anticipating others' moves. Here, we explored how visual and motor experiences contribute …

Sensitivity of the action observation network to physical and observational learning

ES Cross, DJM Kraemer, AFC Hamilton… - Cerebral …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Human motor skills can be acquired by observation without the benefit of immediate
physical practice. The current study tested if physical rehearsal and observational learning …

Motor learning by observing

AAG Mattar, PL Gribble - Neuron, 2005 - cell.com
Learning complex motor behaviors like riding a bicycle or swinging a golf club is based on
acquiring neural representations of the mechanical requirements of movement (eg …

Formation of a motor memory by action observation

K Stefan, LG Cohen, J Duque… - Journal of …, 2005 - Soc Neuroscience
Mirror neurons discharge with both action observation and action execution. It has been
proposed that the mirror neuron system is instrumental in motor learning. The human …

The effect of testing on skills learning

CB Kromann, ML Jensen, C Ringsted - Medical education, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives In addition to the extrinsic effects of assessment and examinations on students'
study habits, testing can have an intrinsic effect on the memory of studied material. Whether …

The self in action effects: selective attenuation of self-generated sounds

C Weiss, A Herwig, S Schütz-Bosbach - Cognition, 2011 - Elsevier
The immediate experience of self-agency, that is, the experience of generating and
controlling our actions, is thought to be a key aspect of selfhood. It has been suggested that …

Improving the 'how'and 'what'decisions of elite table tennis players

M Raab, RSW Masters, JP Maxwell - Human movement science, 2005 - Elsevier
Training methods in sport usually focus on improving either technical or tactical aspects of
performance, ignoring the fact that successful performance requires the athlete to …

Effects of different types of learning on handwriting movements in young children

A Vinter, E Chartrel - Learning and instruction, 2010 - Elsevier
This experiment aimed at studying the benefits of different types of training (visual, motor, or
visual-motor), in comparison to a control group, on 5-year-olds' performance in a task of …

Action observation and motor imagery in performance of complex movements: Evidence from EEG and kinematics analysis

JJ Gonzalez-Rosa, F Natali, A Tettamanti… - Behavioural brain …, 2015 - Elsevier
Motor imagery (MI) and action observation (AO) are considered effective cognitive tools for
motor learning, but little work directly compared their cortical activation correlate in relation …

Effector-dependent learning by observation of a finger movement sequence.

G Bird, C Heyes - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human …, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Can observational learning be effector dependent? In 3 experiments, observers watched a
model respond to a 6-item unique sequence in a serial reaction time task. Their sequence …