Skills, training, and activism

Capturing and Training Motor Skills

Training generalized spatial skills.

Spatial transformation skills are an essential aspect of cognitive ability. These skills can be improved by practice, but such improvement has usually been specific to tasks and stimuli. The present study investigated whether intensive long-term practice leads to change that transcends stimulus and task parameters. Thirty-one participants (14 male, 17 female) were tested on three cognitive task...

Evolution of surgical skills training.

Surgical training is changing: one hundred years of tradition is being challenged by legal and ethical concerns for patient safety, work hours restrictions, the cost of operating room time, and complications. Surgical simulation and skills training offers an opportunity to teach and practice advanced skills outside of the operating room environment before attempting them on living patients. Sim...

Digital Protest Skills and Online Activism Against Copyright Reform in France and the European Union

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau...

Work Practices, Incentives for Skills, and Training∗

We study a worker’s incentives to acquire skills that cannot be verified by a third party. We do this within the context of recent innovative work practices, where jobs have become more flexible. Because flexible jobs are difficult to verify by a court, standard approaches in the literature, where firms use contracts on jobs to commit to reward workers for skills, may not be feasible. We sugges...