Highlights•Vertebrates are remarkable for their ability to select and execute motor
skill.•Motor skill is defined by flexibility of execution while obtaining reliable outcomes.•Basal …

This review proposes that implicit learning processes are the cognitive substrate of social
intuition. This hypothesis is supported by (a) the conceptual correspondence between …

In addition to their well-known role in skeletal movements, the basal ganglia control
saccadic eye movements (saccades) by means of their connection to the superior colliculus …

The basal ganglia have been shown to contribute to habit and stimulus–response (S–R)
learning. These forms of learning have the property of slow acquisition and, in humans, can …

This article describes a neuropsychological theory of motor skill learning that is based on the
idea that learning grows directly out of motor control processes. Three motor control …

Humans and other animals demonstrate the ability to perceive and respond to temporally
relevant information with characteristic behavioral properties. For example, the response …

This article discusses recent evidence supporting the use of action observation therapy and
motor imagery practice for rehabilitation of Parkinson's disease. A main question that …

What is it that makes us human? This is one of the most challenging and important questions
we face. Our species' defining characteristic is language-we appear to be unique in the …

FOR THE PAST 200 YEARS, virtually all attempts to account for the neural bases and the
evolution of human language have focused on the neocortex. And in the past 40 years …

The supplementary motor area (SMA) occupies an expanse of frontal agranular cortex
rostral to the primary motor cortex (MI), largely in the mesial surface of the hemisphere. It is …