Temporal and Spatial Accuracy of Reaching Movements do not Improve Off-line.

Consolidation has been associated with performance gains without additional practice (i.e., off-line learning).

Association Between Variations in Training Load, Sleep, and the Well-Being of Professional Hockey Players.

Purpose: To evaluate whether sleep quantity and quality of professional hockey players is affected by external training load (TL), their perception of well-being, and contextual factors associated with match participation.

Methods: Fifty male athletes were monitored daily during the 28 weeks of the regular season using well-being and sleep surveys. On-ice external TL was monitored using portable inertial measurement units during practices and matches.

Basketball videos presented on a computer screen appear slower than in virtual reality.

Decision-making skills are essential to successful performance. To train them, coaches frequently use video replays to show their athletes how to best respond when facing specific situations. Recently, it has been shown that presenting the videos in virtual reality (VR) led to enhanced transfer, from the laboratory to the playing field, compared to when the videos were presented on a standard computer screen (CS).

Integrating humans into pace-of-life studies: The Big Five personality traits and metabolic rate in young adults.

The pace-of-life syndrome (POLS) predicts that personality and metabolism should be correlated if they function as an integrated unit along a slow-fast continuum. Over the last decade, this conceptual framework has been tested in several empirical studies over a wide array of non-human animal taxa, across multiple personality traits and using standardized measures of metabolism. However, studies associating metabolic rate and personality in humans have been surprisingly scarce.

Using video simulations and virtual reality to improve decision-making skills in basketball.

A large body of literature supports the effectiveness of using video simulations to improve decision-making skills in invasion sports. However, whether these improvements are transferable (from the laboratory to the court/field) and generalizable (from trained to untrained plays) remains unknown. In addition, it remains to be determined whether presenting the video simulations using virtual reality provides an added-value.

Added value of money on motor performance feedback: Increased left central beta-band power for rewards and fronto-central theta-band power for punishments.

Monetary rewards and punishments have been shown to respectively enhance retention of motor memories and short-term motor performance, but their underlying neural bases in the context of motor control tasks remain unclear. Using electroencephalography (EEG), the present study tested the hypothesis that monetary rewards and punishments are respectively reflected in post-feedback beta-band (20-30 Hz) and theta-band (3-8 Hz) oscillatory power. While participants performed upper limb reaching movements toward visual targets using their right hand, the delivery of monetary rewards and punishments was manipulated as well as their probability (i.

Disruption of M1 Activity during Performance Plateau Impairs Consolidation of Motor Memories.

Upon exposure to a new sensorimotor relationship, motor behaviors iteratively change early in adaptation but eventually stabilize as adaptation proceeds. Behavioral work suggests that motor memory consolidation is initiated upon the attainment of asymptotic levels of performance. Separate lines of evidence point to a critical role of the primary motor cortex (M1) in consolidation.

Serial practice impairs motor skill consolidation.

Recent reports have revealed that motor skill learning is impaired if two skills are practiced one after the other, that is before the first skill has had the time to become consolidated. This suggests that motor skills should be practiced in isolation from one another to minimize interference. At the moment, little is known about the effect of practice schedules high in contextual interference on motor skill consolidation.

Success modulates consolidation of a visuomotor adaptation task.

Consolidation is a time-dependent process that is responsible for the storage of information in long-term memory. As such, it plays a crucial role in motor learning. Prior research suggests that some consolidation processes are triggered only when the learner experiences some success during practice.

Observation learning versus physical practice leads to different consolidation outcomes in a movement timing task.

Motor learning is a process that extends beyond training sessions. Specifically, physical practice triggers a series of physiological changes in the CNS that are regrouped under the term "consolidation" (Stickgold and Walker 2007). These changes can result in between-session improvement or performance stabilization (Walker 2005).

Distinct consolidation outcomes in a visuomotor adaptation task: Off-line leaning and persistent after-effect.

Consolidation is a time-dependent process responsible for the storage of information in long-term memory. As such, it plays a crucial role in motor learning. In two experiments, we sought to determine whether one's performance influences the outcome of the consolidation process.

Straight ahead acts as a reference for visuomotor adaptation.

One can adapt movement planning to compensate for a mismatch between vision and action. Previous research with prismatic lenses has shown this adaptation to be accompanied with a shift in the evaluation of one's body midline, suggesting an important role of this reference for successful adaptation. This interpretation leads to the prediction that rotation adaptation could be more difficult to learn for some directions than others.