Motor learning encompasses a wide range of phenomena, ranging from relatively low-level
mechanisms for maintaining calibration of our movements, to making high-level cognitive …

As the proverbial creatures of habit, people tend to repeat the same behaviors in recurring
contexts. This review characterizes habits in terms of their cognitive, motivational, and …

The basal ganglia are known to influence action selection and modulation of movement
vigor, but whether and how they contribute to specifying the kinematics of learned motor …

After more than a century of work concentrating on the motor functions of the basal ganglia,
new ideas have emerged, suggesting that the basal ganglia also have major functions in …

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The acquisition and execution of motor skills are mediated by a distributed motor network,
spanning cortical and subcortical brain areas. The sensorimotor striatum is an important cog …

For goal-directed behaviour it is critical that we can both select the appropriate action and
learn to modify the underlying movements (for example, the pitch of a note or velocity of a …

Progressive depletion of midbrain dopamine neurons (PDD) is associated with deficits in the
initiation, speed, and fluidity of voluntary movement. Models of basal ganglia function focus …

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 …

In changing environments, animals must adaptively select actions to achieve their goals. In
tasks involving goal-directed action selection, striatal neural activity has been shown to …