This groundbreaking discovery of a meta-learning function in the premotor cortex could pave the way for developing technologies to enhance motor skill acquisition more effectively in sports.

Climbing fiber activity gates the acquisition phase of motor learning but becomes nonessential for memory consolidation or performance once proficiency is achieved.

Violinists, surgeons and gamers can benefit from physical exercise both before and after practicing their new skills. The same holds true for anyone seeking to improve their fine motor skills.

In their model, larger amounts of motor exploration - that is, variability in movements - were found to help with the learning of sensitivity derivatives, which measure how commands from the brain ...

Last, learning is aided by motivation, and unlike the typical range of weird, monotonous experimental tasks used in motor-skills research—moving cursors with joysticks, tapping out sequences on ...

Notably, pre- and postnap task performance had different neural correlates; learning during training was associated with increased brain rhythms in movement execution areas during sleep, while ...