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Motor Task Variation Induces Structural Learning

The human motor system is capable of learning a seemingly infinite number of movement skills, vastly surpassing such abilities of any man-made robot. Here, we proposed and established a fundamentally new concept (‘structural motor learning’) on how the brain achieves this, corroborated by experiments in humans. The paper was selected by the Faculty of 1000 (http://F1000.com/1164049) and our theory of structural learning has become a new research direction in movement neuroscience, as discussed in detail in recent major reviews and textbooks (Shadmehr et al. Annu.Rev.Neurosci. 2010, Wolpert et al. Nature Rev Neurosci. 2011, Krakauer et al. Curr.Opin.Neurobiol. 2011; Shadmehr&Mussa-Ivaldi 2012).