People show vast variability in skill performance and learning. What determines a person's
individual performance and learning ability? In this study we explored the possibility to …

Acquisition of motor skills often involves the concatenation of single movements into
sequences. Along the course of learning, sequential performance becomes progressively …

Background and objectives This study examined whether ritualistic behaviors characteristic
of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are a product of dysfunctional goal-directed …

Dexterous finger movements are often characterized by highly coordinated movements.
Such coordination might be derived from reorganization of the corticospinal system. In this …

Consecutive training on two movement sequences often leads to retroactive interference—
obstructing memory for the initially trained sequence but not for the second. However, in the …

Sleep is known to elicit off-line improvements of newly learned procedural skills, a
phenomenon attributed to enhancement consolidation of an internal skill representation. In …

In motor learning tasks, there is mixed evidence for whether increased task-relevant
variability in early learning stages leads to improved outcomes. One problem is that there …

We tested how observation of a skilled pattern of planar movements can assist in the
learning of a new motor skill, which otherwise requires rigorous long-term practice to …

How does the time of day of a practice session affect learning of a new motor sequence in
the elderly? Participants practiced a given finger tapping sequence either during morning or …

It has been argued that the central nervous system relies on combining simple movement
elements (ie motor primitives) to generate complex motor outputs. However, how movement …