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What has to be learned in motor learning?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Harold Bekkering
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-lnstitute for Psychological Research, Department of Cognition and Action, D-80802 Munich, Germany, bekkering@mplpf-muenchen.mpg.de.
Detlef Heck
Affiliation:
Washington University Medical School, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, St. Louis, MO 63110–1031, heck@thalamus.wustl.edu.
Fahad Sultan
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology, Pasadena, CA 91101, fsultan@bbb.caltech.edu.

Abstract

The present commentary considers the question of what must be learned in different types of motor skills, thereby limiting the question of what should be adjusted in the APG model in order to explain successful learning. It is concluded that an open loop model like the APG might well be able to describe the learning pattern of motor skills in a stable, predictable environment. Recent research on saccadic plasticity, however, illustrates that motor skills performed in an unpredictable environment depend heavily on sensory (mostly visual) feedback, [HOUK et al.]

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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