BACKGROUND Since motor learning is a key component for stroke recovery, enhancing motor skill learning is a crucial challenge for neurorehabilitation. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a promising approach for improving motor learning. The aim of this trial was to test the hypothesis that dual-tDCS applied bilaterally over the primary motor cortices (M1) improves online motor sk...

This paper reviews terminology, motivation, history and current work in areas relating to skill or competence. Many useful services, clarifying pathways within and from education to employment, self -assessment, and selection would be facilitated by better standardization of the format in which related definitions are represented, and also by a standard approach to representing the structured s...

BACKGROUND Motor skill learning usually comprises "fast" improvement in performance within the initial training session and "slow" improvement that develops across sessions. Previous studies have revealed changes in activity and connectivity in motor cortex and striatum during motor skill learning. However, the nature and dynamics of the plastic changes in each of these brain structures during ...

We used a cognitive architecture (ACT-R) to explore the procedural learning of surgical tasks and then to understand the process of perceptual motor learning and skill decay in surgical skill performance. The ACT-R cognitive model simulates declarative memory processes during motor learning. In this ongoing study, four surgical tasks (bimanual carrying, peg transfer, needle passing, and suture ...

Humans have an exceptional ability to execute a variety of skilled movements. Researchers been long interested in understanding behavioral and neurophysiological basis human motor skill learning for advancing both fundamental neuroscientific knowledge clinical outcomes. However, despite decades work this field there is lack consensus about what meant by “skill” learning. With advent various tas...

BACKGROUND Children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience delays in acquiring competence completing fundamental motor skills. The effects of augmented prescriptive knowledge of performance feedback (PKP) have not been explored as a possible component solution. AIMS The purpose of this study was to test the motor learning effects of KP among boys with ADHD. ME...

earning is often seen as 'the acquisition of information'. However, for theoretical and practical L purposes, such as training in surgical skills, this is too simplistic. Learning can be approached from several different perspectives. It can be like a product, emphasising the end result, for example, competence in resuscitation techniques. Alternatively, it can be seen as a process, emphasising...

OBJECTIVE In both clinical practice and research, motor delay is understood to be explained, at least in part, by intellectual abilities; however, no data are available to operationalize these criteria to guide clinical decision making. This study provides data on IQ and motor skills in children to answer 3 research questions concerning the relationship between IQ and motor skill: (1) Can motor...

Greater loss in structural integrity of the ipsilesional corticospinal tract (CST) is associated with poorer motor outcome in patients with hemiparetic stroke. Animal models of stroke have demonstrated that structural remodeling of white matter in the ipsilesional and contralesional hemispheres is associated with improved motor recovery. Accordingly, motor recovery in patients with stroke may r...