Recent years have seen significant progress in our understanding of the neural substrates of
motor skill learning. Advances in neuroimaging provide new insight into functional …

Physical activity has been shown to improve cognitive functioning. Research has largely
focused on cognitive facilitation by cardiovascular exercise in older adults. Only few studies …

The array of dysfunction occurring after ligamentous injury is tied to long-term clinical
impairments in functional performance, joint stability, and health-related quality of life. To …

Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) has been gaining increased popularity in human
neuroscience research during the last years. Among the emerging NIBS tools is transcranial …

The neuroplastic effects of anterior cruciate ligament injury have recently become more
evident, demonstrating underlying nervous system changes in addition to the expected …

The psychological revolution that follows the onset of independent locomotion in the latter
half of the infant's first year provides one of the best illustrations of the intimate connection …

The field of skill acquisition is in an exciting period owing to the broad interest in learning
processes and their applications across a variety of disciplines and professions (eg …

Traditionally, motor learning has been studied as an implicit learning process, one in which
movement errors are used to improve performance in a continuous, gradual manner. The …

The Athletic Skills Model offers an alternative to dominant talent development theories in the
form of holistic broad-based movement education, focusing on health and wellbeing. It …

The synaptic pathways in the striatum are central to basal ganglia functions including motor
control, learning and organization, action selection, acquisition of motor skills, cognitive …