A new research study examined the results from data generated by citizen scientists using a simple web-based motor test. The big data approach provides researchers with a unique way to explore how ...

Scientists have identified acquisition of two types of internal models for motor control, which are likely to be stored in the cerebellum. They show that motor control in human hand reaching movement ...

Postural control and motor learning are fundamental to human movement, enabling individuals to maintain balance and adapt to dynamic environmental and task ...

When we learn a new motor skill—whether mastering a piano passage or refining balance while walking—the brain must reorganize the circuits that control movement. For decades, this process of synaptic ...

The motor cortex, the part of the brain involved in the planning, control, and execution of voluntary movements, may play a role in translating vocabulary from foreign languages into a person’s native ...

Aya Takeoka at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan and colleagues have discovered the neural circuitry in the spinal cord that allows brain-independent motor learning. Published in ...

Something quiet has been shifting in classrooms across the country. Teachers who have spent years working with young children ...

For older adults seeking to significantly improve their balance and reduce the risk of falling, movement practices that emphasize continuous motion and motor skills, such as Pilates and tai ...