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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·May 7, 2025·6 min read

          How Learning Reshapes Your Brain’s Connections

          New research reveals that learning doesn't just alter brain activity — it physically rewires the connections between key brain regions to make communication faster and more precise. Scientists used advanced imaging and a new data analysis method to map how the thalamocortical pathway, connecting the thalamus and motor cortex, changes during motor learning in mice.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·May 2, 2025·5 min read

          How Motor Learning Shapes Sense of Agency

          A new study reveals that motor exploration, not mere imitation, is critical for developing a sense of agency (SoA) in unfamiliar environments. Using a data glove and cursor task, researchers found that early judgments of control rely on timing, but true SoA strengthens when learners actively discover movement rules.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·November 13, 2024·6 min read

          Adults Learn Skills Faster, but Kids Retain Them Better With Sleep

          Contrary to common beliefs, adults can learn new motor skills faster than children, but children retain these skills better due to more effective sleep-driven memory consolidation. In a recent study, adults showed faster skill acquisition, while children demonstrated superior retention after sleep.
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          ·July 18, 2024·4 min read

          Brain Structure Differences Explain Faster Learning of Motor Skills

          A new study reveals that quick learners of motor skills have distinct brain activity patterns. Using brain-monitoring electrodes, they found that visual processing plays a crucial role in learning new movements.
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          ·December 24, 2023·4 min read

          Enhancing Motor Learning with Visual-Motor Illusions

          Researchers found that visual aids creating illusions of movement, like screens showing a hand's motion, can enhance motor performance and early-stage motor learning. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy revealed distinct brain activity changes in motor learning regions compared to traditional third-person motion observation.
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          ·April 28, 2023·7 min read

          Short-Term Memories Key to Rapid Motor-Skill Learning, Not Long-Term Memory

          A new study challenges conventional thinking on the role of short and long-term memories in relearning motor skills. Researchers found that fleeting short-term memories, rather than long-term ones, are responsible for rapid motor learning, indicating the existence of mechanisms for regulating the learning rates for memories that are distinct from the memories themselves.
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          ·February 13, 2023·4 min read

          Changes in the Brain Responsible for Motor Skill Learning

          As rat models became proficient at learning new motor skills, they developed synchronous low-frequency oscillatory activity in two brain areas that were recorded that emerged across the cerebellum and motor cortex networks with skill consolidation.
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          ·July 20, 2022·5 min read

          Brain Stimulation Improves Motor Skill Learning at Older Age

          Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation applied to the motor cortex can help improve age-related impairments in learning new motor skills.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·May 23, 2022·1 min read

          Physical Consequences Improve Motor Learning

          Physical consequences such as accidental slipping help improve and prolong motor learning, a new study reports.
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          AutismFeaturedNeuroscience
          ·March 22, 2021·6 min read

          Researchers Close in on Root of Slow Motor Learning in Autism

          Motor learning deficits associated with autism may be the result of reduced levels of noradrenaline release in the primary motor cortex.
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          ·May 4, 2020·4 min read

          Exercise boosts motor skill learning via changes in brain’s transmitters

          Neurons in the caudal pedunculopontine nucleus, an area of the brain that regulates motor coordination, switch neurotransmitters from acetylcholine to GABA as a result of exercise. The switch appears to provide feedback control that regulates motor coordination and skill learning.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·January 2, 2020·4 min read

          Some learning is a whole-brain affair

          Motor learning induces widespread cortical synaptic potentiation by increasing the trafficking of AMPAR into dendritic spines.
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