Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sheahan HR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6156339 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sheahan Hannah R HR Ingram James N JN Žalalytė Goda M GM Wolpert Daniel M DM
Scientific reports 20180925 1
Motor imagery, that is the mental rehearsal of a motor skill, can lead to improvements when performing the same skill. Here we show a powerful and complementary role, in which motor imagery of different movements after actually performing a skill allows learning that is not possible without imagery. We leverage a well-studied motor learning task in which subjects reach in the presence of a dynamic (force-field) perturbation. When two opposing perturbations are presented alternately for the same ...[more]