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SUBMITTER: Abe M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3075334 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Abe Mitsunari M Schambra Heidi H Wassermann Eric M EM Luckenbaugh Dave D Schweighofer Nicolas N Cohen Leonardo G LG
Current biology : CB 20110317 7
In humans, training in which good performance is rewarded or bad performance punished results in transient behavioral improvements. The relative effects of reward and punishment on consolidation and long-term retention, critical behavioral stages for successful learning, are not known. Here, we investigated the effects of reward and punishment on these different stages of human motor skill learning. We studied healthy subjects who trained on a motor task under rewarded, punished, or neutral cont ...[more]