Learning in the motor system.

Publisher Summary Currently, the list of learned motor skills is enormous. There is much more interest in motor skills as exhibited in all the sports than in intellectual and artistic performances, with the exception of ballet. No doubt, television is responsible in part for this bias. It would be generally agreed that the cerebral cortex is primarily involved in human motor learning, but the cerebellum is most importantly involved, and also the basal ganglia and presumably brain stem nuclei. It is proposed that three distinct classes of phenomena are included in the general theme of motor learning. Firstly, there is the learning of automatic movements, in which the whole process is subconscious from the beginning. Secondly, there is the learning of motor skills by animals. Thirdly, there is the learning of human skills. In this learning, it is essential to have mental concentration with a planned strategy of action and a subsequent evaluation and correction of errors in successive attempts.

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