Talk:Muscle memory

message: This page is very very informal. Perhaps it would be best to formalize it. 203.208.71.49 05:50, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest it would be easier and more appropriate to merge or redirect this page to procedural memory, as muscle memory is simply the non-technical term for procedural memory. I say this because the physiology section in the present article is rather incorrect and should perhaps be removed, which would leave little more than discussion of examples of procedural memory which may be more useful in that page. digfarenough (talk) 21:45, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It has been proposed to merge Muscle memory (strength training) into Muscle memory.
*Oppose. As I see it, muscle memory in the sense of motor learning and muscle memory (strength training) are two entirely unrelated phenomena, and I don't see what is to be gained by treating both in one article.  --Lambiam 22:44, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: He is mentioned as a philosopher. But wasn't he a mathematician?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.249.1.202 (talk) 18:22, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Friedrich Bessel 

message: I am moving this challenged section, which appears to claim a clinical entity, to the talk page here:
Sensory motor amnesia (SMA) occurs when the portions of the nervous system responsible for involuntary or automatic movement, such as the spinal cord, take indefinite persistent control of movements that are normally under the person's voluntary, conscious control. As described by Thomas Hanna in his book Somatics: Reawakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility, and Health, SMA develops by habituation and the repeated execution of a movement pattern.
86.186.168.226 (talk) 21:40, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Challenged "Sensory motor amnesia" section 

message: A shibboleth instance of fitness folk science conflating "memory" types. In fact, the at least factual if not primary sense of 'muscle memory' is the changes at the cellular level that occur in skeletal muscle which has in the past reached some state of hypertrophy. The muscle fiber structure regresses to the pre-hypertrophy state but the cells retain the changes needed to restore the hypertrophy state. That's not the kind of memory referred to which occurs in the brain. There are ofc neurological changes at the motor units as well, but the titular phenomenon is primarily one of the muscle fiber cells, not the nervous system. 98.4.103.219 (talk) 07:07, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah see that it's actually a synthesis/metonymy (rather than a straightforward equivocation), but the same sort of complaint applies or a similar one to that with the current article level tagging. The sense of motor memory as such is dealt with properly in the strength training §. Acceptable I suppose since this is in fact sort of a folk encyclopedia and it's great to some OR like this evade the phage. 98.4.103.219 (talk) 21:28, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Laughable Equivocation 

message: My suggestion for the article would be to find more recent research concerning muscle memory and to try and expand a bit more on the differences it has from procedural memory. This would help clarify things for many readers and if it were explained a bit more thorough in the Lead, the article would stand out a bit more.Spencershumate (talk) 20:09, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Considerations 

message: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jidanni/diary/392371 mentions the hazards of program A mapping mouse buttons one way, and program B the other, on the user. Please mention something in this area. Jidanni (talk) 13:34, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mouse button mapping 

message: Could it please be specificed that muscles don't have memory, the brain does. Whoever coined this term, didn't think it through, and it became popular
Other ways to term this:
* muslce-to-brain memory
* motion memory
* repeated motion memory
* habitual muscle motion memory
* muscle motion memory
* kineto-muscular memory
TudorTulok (talk) 13:14, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It should perhaps be called Motor Memory, but we have a separate article on that. Muscle memory is more of a colloquialism. Should the articles be merged? SPECIFICO talk 19:54, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muscles don't have memory