DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00400.002 The cerebellum is critical for coordinating movement and for learning sensorimotor relationships (Ito, 2006, 2008).
If your grandparents grew up during the Great Depression or the Civil Rights Movement, for example, learning this will give you important insight into their outlook on life.
Such nonlinear basis functions would be useful for learning movement representations, in which commands to the contralateral hand depend nonlinearly on the context provided by the intended ipsilateral action.
The present experiment examined learning of a three-segment movement sequence using physical or observational practice, and whether permitting eye movements to be made during observation is a prerequisite for learning such a movement sequence.
Physical movements complement humans' natural tendency for learning because before abstract forms of thoughts such as mathematics emerged, problem solving in the real world required moving through space and manipulating actual objects (Wilson, 2002).
I then built an intellectual framework that can understand language for expressing movement by learning the correspondence between bodily motions and language expressions via a statistical model.
However, the findings support prior animal work implicating central proprioceptive capability as important for learning patterns of movement.
To study processes required for recognizing specific actions or for learning the idiosyncratic movement styles of specific individuals, one can use moving stick figures in place of point-light displays.
Physiologic evidence from animal lesion models suggests that sensory cortex is necessary for learning new skills, including movement sequences.
We suggest dynamical movement primitives as a central pattern generator (CPG) of a biped robot, an approach we have previously proposed for learning and encoding complex human movements.
