Understanding generalization, credit assignment and the regulation of learning rate in human motor learning
Contributors: Smith, Maurice; Eskandar, Emad; Howe, Robert; Brown, Emery
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: Understanding the neural processes underlying motor learning in humans is important to facilitate the acquisition of new motor skills and to aid the relearning of skills lost after neurologic injury. Although it is known that the learning of a new movement is guided by the error feedback received after each repeated attempt to produce the movement, how the central nervous system (CNS) processes individual errors and how it modulates its learning rate in response to the history of errors experienced are issues that remain to be elucidated.
Notes: Keywords: Credit assignment, Force-field adaptation, Generalization, Learning rate modulation, Motor learning, Motor memory.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012