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. 2015 Apr;18(4):480-1.
doi: 10.1038/nn.3978.

Carrot or stick in motor learning

Dagmar Sternad  1 , Konrad Paul Körding  2
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Carrot or stick in motor learning

Dagmar Sternad et al. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Apr.

Abstract

A study shows that reward and punishment have distinct influences on motor adaptation. Punishing mistakes accelerates adaptation, whereas rewarding good behavior improves retention.

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Motor control is at the intersection of three fields: psychology, neuroscience and computational science. The metaphors for understanding human behavior differ across fields: neuroscience focuses on the brain, computational science stresses the robot analogy, and psychology addresses behavioral, cognitive and social processes.
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