Neuroscience of motor learning.

IsaacDraper - 2017-06-07 21:02:55 UTC - Parent #

You might like 'Peak' by Eric Anders, or is it Anders Eric?

7b_wizard - 2017-06-08 14:47:02 UTC - Parent #

One more thing: phenomena like Qi, flow or harmony (also in e.g. music) are harder nuts to crack for science. So it is no wonder that from science, we get results and (more or less) well searched theories on one dimensional, causally measurable interdependencies, resulting in "If you do this, you get this or that good or bad effect." (let alone dubious guides on how to become a superhuman in three weeks).

But there's more to it, I believe. We're highly complex organisms doing highly complex stuff juggling an' all, in a frame of highly complex evolution of life on earth.   Science can only offer partly truths, hints, provisional guidelines, mosaique stones for each of us to filter individually, but not (yet) any dead solid thorough complete final utter ultimate explanation of everything, it all, us and the whole.

7b_wizard - 2017-06-08 14:18:34 UTC - Parent #

I knew about the neural system being dynamic, but didn't associate the term "neural plasticity" with it. Then in articles about motor learning you usually read things like "new synapses are being built" or "the brain establishes new connections" or alike without telling what exactly goes on.

I found Dendritic spines accomplish this by transforming synaptic input into neuronal output and also by helping to define the relationship between synapses. particularly interesting. Seems like this is nothing else than what we call "automizing" - in a chain of eye-brain-hand-coordination, from being actively regulating and interfering when still learning, the brain becomes like merely a ``neural transmitter´´ with hands ``doing by themselves´´ as reacting to what the eyes see (eye--(brain)--hand).

Also the "stress" paragraph could be interesting: More importantly, many of the mechanisms involved with increased memory retention, comprehension, and adaptation are thought to involve LTP and LTD [long term potentiating and long term depressing], two activity-dependent plasticity mechanisms that stress can directly suppress. If this implies (not only extrinsic stress inflicted by outer conditions or other people or society, but) selfmade stress when learning (like wanting too much, setting insane goals, doing near and above limit a lot, ..), this might be nothing else than what we in juggling call "enforcing errors" prohibiting improvement and landing on a plateau. Maybe a reason to always also do relaxed and find easier ways what I always plead for.

#science #efficiency #motorLearning #automizing #learning #improving #plateau