03/06/2025
Muscle Memory - Involves 2 Sets Of Memory by Medical Daily
Muscle memory is what you access whenever you type on a keyboard or automatically punch your PIN into an ATM. A team of researchers at Johns Hopkins who have explored this type of memory, which is often referred to as motor learning, have arrived at some unexpected conclusions. They say whenever you learn an identical or similar muscle memory task faster on the second, third or fourth time around, the reason you do so is because you are benefitting from two different sets of memories — your recall of both the steps to perform the task and the errors you made. "In learning a new motor task, there appear to be two processes happening at once," says Dr. Reza Shadmehr, a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "One is the learning of the motor commands in the task, and the other is critiquing the learning, much the way a 'coach' behaves.” Article here: http://bit.ly/1mf0rom
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