Cognitive processes in motor control and learning

学习新的运动技能是我们日常生活中至关重要的一部分。我们用工具做饭、修理东西、把数据输入电脑；我们租汽车或借自行车，开着它们穿过不熟悉的环境；我们承担的工作有时需要一整套全新的身体技能。有时学习很快，毫不费力。对于其他技能，学习似乎永无止境。我们实验室的研究策略一直致力于发现人类是如何获得、保留和转移运动技能的。特别是，我们关心的是如何更好地构建学习环境以促进这一过程。我们的兴趣集中在基于实验室的任务和真实的运动技能上，并分析个人的行为——从时间和误差的角度来看，表现的有效性和效率是我们感兴趣的主要变量。

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.