title: Central mechanisms of motor skill learning.
abstract: Recent studies have shown that frontoparietal cortices and interconnecting regions in the basal ganglia and the cerebellum are related to motor skill learning. We propose that motor skill learning occurs independently and in different coordinates in two sets of loop circuits: cortex-basal ganglia and cortex-cerebellum. This architecture accounts for the seemingly diverse features of motor learning.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Building 49, Room 2A50, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. oh@lsr.nei.nih.gov
authors.forename: Okihide
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hikosaka
authors.forename: Kae
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Katsuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakahara
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000502:physiology*; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology