Self-controlled practice benefits motor learning in older adults

HT Lessa, S Chiviacowsky - Human movement science, 2015 - Elsevier
Providing learners with the chance to choose over certain aspects of practice has been
consistently shown to facilitate the acquisition of motor skills in several populations …

Mild cognitive impairment affects motor control and skill learning

Q Wu, JSY Chan, JH Yan - Reviews in the Neurosciences, 2016 - degruyter.com
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a transitional phase between normal cognitive aging and
dementia. As the world population is aging rapidly, more MCI patients will be identified …

[HTML][HTML] High-intensity acute exercise impacts motor learning in healthy older adults

EM Taylor, CJ Cadwallader, D Curtin… - npj Science of …, 2024 - nature.com
Healthy aging is associated with changes in motor sequence learning, with some studies
indicating decline in motor skill learning in older age. Acute cardiorespiratory exercise has …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of motor skill learning are dependent on both age and task difficulty

JM Bootsma, SR Caljouw, MP Veldman… - Frontiers in aging …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Although a general age-related decline in neural plasticity is evident, the effects of age on
neural plasticity after motor practice are inconclusive. Inconsistencies in the literature may …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing consolidation of a rotational visuomotor adaptation task through acute exercise

B Ferrer-Uris, A Busquets, V Lopez-Alonso… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
We assessed the effect of a single bout of intense exercise on the adaptation and
consolidation of a rotational visuomotor task, together with the effect of the order of exercise …

Choices over feedback enhance motor learning in older adults

S Chiviacowsky, HT Lessa - Journal of Motor …, 2017 - journals.humankinetics.com
Granting learners autonomy over certain aspects of the practice context—for example, by
providing them with the opportunity to choose when to receive augmented feedback or …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal mechanisms of motor learning and motor memory consolidation in healthy old adults

KMM Berghuis, MP Veldman, S Solnik, G Koch… - Age, 2015 - Springer
It is controversial whether or not old adults are capable of learning new motor skills and
consolidate the performance gains into motor memory in the offline period. The underlying …

[HTML][HTML] Feasibility theory reconciles and informs alternative approaches to neuromuscular control

BA Cohn, M Szedlák, B Gärtner… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
We present Feasibility Theory, a conceptual and computational framework to unify today's
theories of neuromuscular control. We begin by describing how the musculoskeletal …

[HTML][HTML] The underlying mechanisms of improved balance after one and ten sessions of balance training in older adults

L Alizadehsaravi, RAJ Koster, W Muijres, H Maas… - Human movement …, 2022 - Elsevier
Training improves balance control in older adults, but the time course and neural
mechanisms underlying these improvements are unclear. We studied balance robustness …

Ecological mechanisms in cognitive science

S Golonka, AD Wilson - Theory & Psychology, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In 2010, Bechtel and Abrahamsen defined and described what it means to be a dynamic
causal mechanistic explanatory model. They discussed the development of a mechanistic …