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Motor Skills

Known as: Motor Skill, Skill, Motor, Skills, Motor 
Performance of complex motor acts.

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Noninvasive cortical stimulation enhances motor skill acquisition over multiple days through an effect on consolidation.
Motor skills can take weeks to months to acquire and can diminish over time in the absence of continued practice. Thus… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Reinforcement learning of motor skills with policy gradients
Autonomous learning is one of the hallmarks of human and animal behavior, and understanding the principles of learning will be… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Teaching surgical skills--changes in the wind.
Copyright © 2006 Massachusetts Medical Society. Sir william halsted introduced a german-style residency training system with an… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Action observation and acquired motor skills: an FMRI study with expert dancers.
When we observe someone performing an action, do our brains simulate making that action? Acquired motor skills offer a unique way… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
A Schema Theory of Discrete Motor Skill Learning
A number of closed-loop postulations to explain motor skills learning and performance phenomena have appeared recently, but each… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Practice with Sleep Makes Perfect Sleep-Dependent Motor Skill Learning
Improvement in motor skill performance is known to continue for at least 24 hr following training, yet the relative contributions… (More)
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Functional reorganization of the rat motor cortex following motor skill learning.
Functional reorganization of the rat motor cortex following motor skill learning. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 3321-3325, 1998. Adult… (More)
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Use-dependent alterations of movement representations in primary motor cortex of adult squirrel monkeys.
This study was undertaken to document plastic changes in the functional topography of primary motor cortex (M1) that are… (More)
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Functional MRI evidence for adult motor cortex plasticity during motor skill learning.
Performance of complex motor tasks, such as rapid sequences of finger movements, can be improved in terms of speed and accuracy… (More)
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Modulation of muscle responses evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation during the acquisition of new fine motor skills.
1. We used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to study the role of plastic changes of the human motor system in the… (More)
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