PMID-9448252[0] The acquisition of skilled motor performance: Fast and slow experience-driven changes in primary motor cortex
- a few minutes of daily practice on a sequential finger opposition task induced large, incremental performance gains over a few weeks of training
- performance was lateralized
- limited training experience can be sufficient to trigger performance gains that require time to become evident.
- learning is characterized by two stages:
- "fast†learning, an initial, within-session improvement phase, followed by a period of consolidation of several hours duration
- possibly this is due to synaptic plasticity.
- and then “slow†learning, consisting of delayed, incremental gains in performance emerging after continued practice
- In many instances, most gains in performance evolved in a latent manner not during, but rather a minimum of 6–8 hr after training, that is, between sessions
- this is thought to correspond to the reorganization of M1 & other cortical structures.
- long-term training results in highly specific skilled motor performance, paralleled by the emergence of a specific, more extensive representation of a trained sequence of movements in the contralateral primary motor cortex. this is seen when imaging for activation using fMRI.
- why is there the marked difference between declarative learning, which often only takes one presentation to learn, and procedural memory, which takes several sessions to learn? Hypothetically, they require different neural substrates.
- pretty good series of references...
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