Early boost and slow consolidation in motor skill learning | Zendy

Christophe Hotermans | Zendy; Philippe Peigneux | Zendy; Alain Maertens De Noordhout | Zendy; Gustave Moonen | Zendy; Pierre Maquet | Zendy

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Early boost and slow consolidation in motor skill learning

Author(s) -

Christophe Hotermans,

Philippe Peigneux,

Alain Maertens De Noordhout,

Gustave Moonen,

Pierre Maquet

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

learning and memory

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.228

H-Index - 136

eISSN - 1549-5485

pISSN - 1072-0502

DOI - 10.1101/lm.239406

Subject(s) - psychology , consolidation (business) , motor skill , motor learning , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , neuroscience , economics , accounting

Motorskill learning is a dynamic process that continues covertly after training has ended and eventually leads to delayed increments in performance. Current theories suggest that this off-line improvement takes time and appears only after several hours. Here we show an early transient and short-lived boost in performance, emerging as early as 5-30 min after training but no longer observed 4 h later. This early boost is predictive of the performance achieved 48 h later, suggesting its functional relevance for memory processes.

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