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 …

Highlights•Analysis of variability provides information about control priorities.•Variability
comprises a multitude of processes that contribute to skill improvement.•Stages of learning …

The public pays large sums of money to watch skilled motor performance. Notably, however,
in recent decades motor skill learning (performance improvement beyond baseline levels) …

How do habit and skill relate to one another? Among many traditions of habit research, we
suggest that'slip-of-action'habits are the type most likely to relate to motor skill. Habits are …

'Learning to learn'phenomena have been widely investigated in cognition, perception and
more recently also in action. During concept learning tasks, for example, it has been …

Variability in motor performance decreases with practice but is never entirely eliminated, due
in part to inherent motor noise. The present study develops a method that quantifies how …

Probabilistic representations of movement primitives open important new possibilities for
machine learning in robotics. These representations are able to capture the variability of the …

Motor learning occurs over long periods of practice during which motor acuity, the ability to
execute actions more accurately, precisely, and in less time, improves. Laboratory-based …

Dexterous action, as conceptualized by Bernstein in his influential ecological analysis of
human behavior, is revealed in the ability to flexibly generate behaviors that are adaptively …

Background and Objective: Stroke rehabilitation assumes motor learning contributes to
motor recovery, yet motor learning in stroke has received little systematic investigation. Here …