People can unconsciously learn repeated motor procedure {skill, learning}| {motor skill} in response to instruction or will. Skill improves with practice.
brain
At skill-learning beginning, prefrontal cortex stores temporary information, parietal cortex is for attention, and cerebellum coordinates movements. Skill learning enlarges sensorimotor cortex. After learning, neostriatum caudate nucleus and putamen activity increases and prefrontal-cortex, parietal-cortex, and cerebellum activity decreases.
practice
Training and experience make behaviors more coordinated, nuanced, and unconscious. Practice develops efficient strategies. Improvement with practice is rapid at first and then is gradual but always continuing.
properties
Skill holds over many years. Interference from other learning, not decay over time, causes people to forget discrete motor skills over time.
Skill involves learning efficient chained action programs, from initiation to result {performance strategy}. Performance strategy involves perceptions, analyses, and responses. Practice develops efficient strategies.
People can unconsciously learn to perform movement sequence {sequence learning}. Such motor skill learning improves with practice.
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