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We know a lot about the cerebellum, but do we know what motor learning is?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Stephan P. Swinnen
Affiliation:
Motor Control Lab, Department of Kinesiology, Catholic University of Leuven, Tervuurse Vest 101, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium, stephan.swinnen@flok.kuleuven.ac.be
Charles B. Walter
Affiliation:
Motor Control Lab, School of Kinesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 901 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608.
Natalia Dounskaia
Affiliation:
Motor Control Lab, Department of Kinesiology, Catholic University of Leuven, Tervuurse Vest 101, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium, stephan.swinnen@flok.kuleuven.ac.beInstitute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow

Abstract

In the behavioral literature on human movement, a distinction is made between the learning of parameters and the learning of new movement forms or topologies. Whereas the target articles by Thach, Smith, and Houk et al. provide evidence for cerebellar involvement in parametrization learning and adaptation, the evidence in favor of its involvement in the generation of new movement patterns is less straightforward. A case is made for focusing more attention on the latter issue in the future. This would directly help to bridge the gap between current neurophysiological approaches to the role of the cerebellum and the behavioral expressions of human motor learning, [HOUK et al.; SMITH; THACH]

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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