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Reward boosts reinforcement-based motor learning

iScience, 2021
Summary: 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 reward modulates motor learning remains unclear.
Pierre Vassiliadis, Gerard Derosiere, Cecile Dubuc, Aegryan Lete, Frederic Crevecoeur, Friedhelm C. Hummel, Julie Duque   +6 more
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Motor skill learning leads to the increase of planning horizon [PDF]

, 2018
We investigated motor skill learning using a path tracking task, where human subjects had to track various curved paths at a constant speed while maintaining the cursor within the path width. Subjects' accuracy increased with practice, even when tracking
Bashford, Luke, Diedrichsen, Jörn, Kobak, Dmitry, Mehring, Carsten   +3 more
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Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Motor Function in Children 8–12 Years With Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020
Background and objectives: Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a neurodevelopmental motor disorder occurring in 5-6% of school-aged children. It is suggested that children with DCD show deficits in motor learning.
Melody N. Grohs, Melody N. Grohs, Brandon T. Craig, Brandon T. Craig, Brandon T. Craig, Adam Kirton, Adam Kirton, Adam Kirton, Adam Kirton, Deborah Dewey, Deborah Dewey, Deborah Dewey, Deborah Dewey   +12 more
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Increasing physical activity among young children from disadvantaged communities: Study protocol of a group randomised controlled effectiveness trial [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Participation in regular physical activity (PA) during the early years helps children achieve healthy body weight and can substantially improve motor development, bone health, psychosocial health and cognitive development.
Batterham, Marijka, Berthelsen, Donna, Brown, Ngiare, Chandler, Paul, Cliff, Dylan P, Cross, Penny, Eckermann, Simon, Gowers, Fay, Hinkley, Trina, Howard, Steven J, Janssen, Xanne, Jones, Rachel A, Mickle, Karen, Okely, Anthony D, Reilly, John J, Salmon, Jo, Stanley, Rebecca M, Trost, Stewart G   +17 more
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Using high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation to investigate the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in explicit sequence learning.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Though we have a general understanding of the brain areas involved in motor sequence learning, there is more to discover about the neural mechanisms underlying skill acquisition.
Hannah K Ballard, Sydney M Eakin, Ted Maldonado, Jessica A Bernard   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effect of self-controlled practice on forearm passing, motivation, and affect in women’s volleyball players

, 2011
Motor learning research has suggested that self-controlled practice (or “autonomy”) leads to more effective learning of motor tasks. Debate continues, however, as to why.
Rydberg, Nels
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Cognitive Functioning in Vorinostat‐Treated Pediatric and Young Adult Patients Over the First 180 Days After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Cognitive and psychological difficulties could negatively interfere with treatment adherence and quality of life before and after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Methods to mitigate these changes may have positive effects on treatment success.
Kristen L. Votruba, Michelle Rozwadowski, Thomas Braun, April Rahrig, Edward Peres, Kirsten M. Williams, Vanessa Fabrizio, Julie‐An Talano, Carrie L. Kitko, Nicolas Parnell, Pavan Reddy, Sung Won Choi   +11 more
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Aerobic exercise and aerobic fitness level do not modify motor learning

Scientific Reports, 2021
Motor learning may be enhanced when a single session of aerobic exercise is performed immediately before or after motor skill practice. Most research to date has focused on aerobically trained (AT) individuals, but it is unknown if aerobically untrained (
Andrea Hung, Marc Roig, Jenna B. Gillen, Catherine M. Sabiston, Walter Swardfager, Joyce L. Chen   +5 more
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An introduction to the constraints-led approach to learning in outdoor education [PDF]

, 2010
Participation in outdoor education is underpinned by a learner's ability to acquire skills in activities such as canoeing, bushwalking and skiing and consequently the outdoor leader is often required to facilitate skill acquisition and motor learning. As
Brymer, Eric, Renshaw, Ian
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Experts bodies, experts minds: How physical and mental training shape the brain [PDF]

, 2014
Skill learning is the improvement in perceptual, cognitive, or motor performance following practice. Expert performance levels can be achieved with well-organized knowledge, using sophisticated and specific mental representations and cognitive processing,
Aymeric Guillot, Franck Di Rienzo, Marco Sperduti, Ursula Debarnot   +3 more
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