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MOTOR LEARNING

Aiming for stable control

Motor learning is composed of explicit ‘strategic’ components and implicit ‘automatic’ components. Miyamoto and colleagues reveal how these components work together during visuomotor adaptation, providing evidence that an implicit component corrects for a noisy explicit process.

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Fig. 1: Unmasking interactions between explicit and implicit learning components in the frequency domain.

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Codol, O., Ariani, G. & Michaels, J.A. Aiming for stable control. Nat Neurosci 23, 298–300 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0601-2

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