Talk:Motor learning

Motor behavior

Though accurate, the definition seems to stick to a physiological level of analysis. Things that could be added to the definition, from the perspective of a behavioral one, is that motor learning is an internal process, dissociate from performance and not directly measurable. The study of motor learning is also closely related to motor control and motor development, even indistinguishable, and the three fields of study together form the area known as motor behavior.

Learning reflects a relatively permanent change, which is distinguishable from performance flunctuations. There are several theoretical views on how motor learning progresses. The most influential one is that of Fitts and Posner (1967), which divides learning into three stages: cognitive, associative and autonomous.

Great comments. Anyone can make contributions to Wikipedia; this is how to narrow the gaps in Wikipedia's coverage. So be bold and edit this article to your heart's content. Cheers, David Iberri | Talk 23:37, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

Brain's "Physics Engine"?

Being a physicist, I've always wondered if the human brain learns the laws of physics (that, for example, a freely-falling ball drops at a uniformly accelerating rate on earth's surface), or are the laws of physics hardwired in our brains? Thanks--Geremia (talk) 01:45, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I think the brain would model the formula of acceleration using neurons. It seems that only N neurons are needed to model a polynomial with N terms. Of course this is an optimal neural network, I'm not sure we can train our brains to be that efficient.

As a side note I found that article too technical and should be use simpler language. LegendLength (talk) 14:46, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

No Links to Learning

As Motor learning is part of Learning how can there be no links to Learning?