Neuroplasticity & Motor Learning

TY - CONF

T1 - Neuroplasticity & Motor Learning

AU - Jensen, Jesper Lundbye

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - Practice of a new motor task is usually associated with an improvement in performance. Indeed, if we stop practicing and return the next day to the same task, we find that our performance has been maintained and may even be better than it was at the start of the first day. This improvement is a measure of our ability to form and store a motor memory of the task. However, the initial memory of the task is labile and may be subject to interference. During and following motor learning plastic changes occur within the central nervous system. On one hand these changes are driven by motor practice, on the other hand the changes underlie the formation of motor memory and the retention of improved motor performance. During motor learning changes may occur at many different levels within the central nervous system dependent on the type of task and training. Here, we demonstrate different studies from our research group which aim at elucidating how different types of training (and disuse) may be accompanied by changes in behaviour as well as cortical representational maps and excitability, corticospinal drive and corticomuscular coherence, spinal reflex parameters etc.

AB - Practice of a new motor task is usually associated with an improvement in performance. Indeed, if we stop practicing and return the next day to the same task, we find that our performance has been maintained and may even be better than it was at the start of the first day. This improvement is a measure of our ability to form and store a motor memory of the task. However, the initial memory of the task is labile and may be subject to interference. During and following motor learning plastic changes occur within the central nervous system. On one hand these changes are driven by motor practice, on the other hand the changes underlie the formation of motor memory and the retention of improved motor performance. During motor learning changes may occur at many different levels within the central nervous system dependent on the type of task and training. Here, we demonstrate different studies from our research group which aim at elucidating how different types of training (and disuse) may be accompanied by changes in behaviour as well as cortical representational maps and excitability, corticospinal drive and corticomuscular coherence, spinal reflex parameters etc.

M3 - Poster

T2 - Neuroday 2009, University of Copenhagen

Y2 - 6 November 2009 through 6 November 2009

ER -