Effective motor performance is important for surviving and thriving, and skilled movement is
critical in many activities. Much theorizing over the past few decades has focused on how …

It is widely believed that sleep is critical to the consolidation of learning and memory. In
some skill domains, performance has been shown to improve by 20% or more following …

Numerous studies in the motor learning domain have demonstrated learning advantages of
self-controlled practice relative to yoked conditions. In separate lines of evidence in the …

Objectives According to the OPTIMAL theory of motor learning (Wulf & Lewthwaite, 2016),
autonomy support contributes to successful performance and learning in part by enhancing …

Background and objective The effects of motor learning, such as motor adaptation, in stroke
rehabilitation are often transient, thus mandating approaches that enhance the amount of …

In a recent study by Chauvel, Wulf, and Maquestiaux (2015), golf putting performance was
found to be affected by the Ebbinghaus illusion. Specifically, adult participants demonstrated …

Background: The addition of motivational strategies to a rehabilitation program is thought to
enhance patient adherence and improve outcomes. However, little is known about how …

Social rewards as praise from others enhance offline improvements in human motor skills.
Does praise from artificial beings, eg, computer-graphics-based agents (displayed agents) …

The authors examined several issues related to the motor learning benefits resulting from
giving learners choices. In 2 experiments, participants practiced a novel task, throwing a …

An external focus of attention has been shown to enhance the performance and learning of
motor skills, relative to an internal focus (see Chua, Jimenez-Diaz, Lewthwaite, Kim, & Wulf …