Cognitive processes in motor control and learning

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Learning new motor skills is a critical part of our daily lives. We use tools to cook, mend things, and input data into computers; we rent cars or borrow bicycles and maneuver them through unfamiliar environments; we take on jobs that sometimes require a whole new set of physical skills. Sometimes learning occurs quickly and effortlessly. For other skills the learning seems to never end. The research strategy undertaken in our lab has been devoted to discovering how humans acquire, retain, and transfer motor skills. In particular, we are concerned with understanding better ways to structure the learning environment to facilitate this process. We focus our interest on both lab-based tasks and real motor skills and analyze the behaviour of the individual - effectiveness and efficiency of performance in terms of time and error represents the primary variables of interest.