Mechanisms of motoric learning
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Published on: March 4, 2014
1Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Abstract:
The basic principles of motoric learning are analyzed in this paper. Arguments are given for the position that instrumental conditioning is the basis for motoric learning, but that the mechanisms of insight as well as the system of foresight in analysis of the result also play a substantial role in it. The hypothesis is advanced, in comparing certain theories of learning, of the possibility of a synthetic approach. Two stages can be distinguished in the process of motoric learning, the formation of notional and coordinational programs. The formation and realization of learned movements which are antagonistic to the initial coordinations takes place under the constant control of the motor cortex, which effects the inhibition of interfering coordinations that develop in the course of learning.
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