title: Sensory Plasticity in Human Motor Learning.
abstract: There is accumulating evidence from behavioral, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging studies that the acquisition of motor skills involves both perceptual and motor learning. Perceptual learning alters movements, motor learning, and motor networks of the brain. Motor learning changes perceptual function and the sensory circuits of the brain. Here, we review studies of both human limb movement and speech that indicate that plasticity in sensory and motor systems is reciprocally linked. Taken together, this points to an approach to motor learning in which perceptual learning and sensory plasticity have a fundamental role.
authors.affiliation: McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: david.ostry@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Ostry
authors.affiliation: Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA; University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Paul L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Gribble
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D009048:Motor Skills / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D011984:Sensory Receptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: human motor learning; perceptual learning; somatosensory plasticity