A Multidisciplinary Approach to Motor Learning and Sensorimotor Adaptation

• Main Author: Sean Kevin Meehan (auth)
• Other Authors: Rachael D. Seidler (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; motor learning; neural; sensorimotor; adaptation; Skilled Learning; plasticity; sequence learning; neuroimaging
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The plasticity of the living matter of our nervous system, in short, is the reason why we do a thing with difficulty the first time, but soon do it more and more easily, and finally, with sufficient practice, do it semi-mechanically, or with hardly any consciousness at all. William James, 1899. It i...