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Movement Skill Acquisition

Movement Skill Acquisition is a developmental process within motor learning that involves the progressive internalization and refinement of fundamental movement patterns through practice, feedback, and experience, distinguishing it from innate motor behaviors by its reliance on intentional, adaptive engagement in structured or unstructured physical activities.

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A Closed-Loop Theory of Motor Learning

Jack A. Adams · Journal of Motor Behavior · 1971 · 1.6K citations

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Learning of action through adaptive combination of motor primitives

Kurt A. Thoroughman, Reza Shadmehr · Nature · 2000 · 993 citations · Full text

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A rotarod test for evaluation of motor skill learning

Hiromi Shiotsuki, Kenji Yoshimi, Yasushi Shimo et al. · Journal of Neuroscience Methods · 2010 · 629 citations

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Free(z)ing Degrees of Freedom in Skill Acquisition

Beatrix Vereijken, Richard E.A. van Emmerik, H. T. A. Whiting et al. · Journal of Motor Behavior · 1992 · 580 citations

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Sensitivity of the Action Observation Network to Physical and Observational Learning

Emily S. Cross, David J. M. Kraemer, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2008 · 485 citations · Full text

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  1. LM
    Lisa M. Barnett

    Deakin University, Australia

    13 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. KD
    Keith Davids

    Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 401 citations

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  3. GN
    Gunn Nyberg

    Dalarna University, Sweden

    6 publications · 151 citations

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  4. ND
    Nicola D. Ridgers

    Deakin University, Australia

    6 publications · 428 citations

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  5. KM
    Karl M. Newell

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    6 publications · 817 citations

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Institutions

462

  1. Deakin University

    Burwood, Australia

    14 h-index

    42 publications

    3.2K citations

  2. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    9 h-index

    23 publications

    1.6K citations

  3. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    456 citations

  4. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    8 h-index

    16 publications

    327 citations

  5. McMaster University

    Hamilton, Canada

    8 h-index

    18 publications

    1K citations

  6. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    8 h-index

    21 publications

    4.2K citations

  7. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    529 citations

  8. University of Wollongong

    Wollongong, Australia

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    2.1K citations

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Venues

  1. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

    RQES · 26 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. Journal of Motor Behavior

    JMB · 20 publications · 3K citations

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  3. Perceptual and Motor Skills

    16 publications · 358 citations

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  4. Human Movement Science

    11 publications · 605 citations

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  5. Frontiers in Psychology

    9 publications · 356 citations

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