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Motor learning is composed of explicit ‘strategic’ components and implicit ‘automatic’ components. Miyamoto and colleagues reveal how these components work together during visuomotor adaptation, providing evidence that an implicit component corrects for a noisy explicit process.

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Fig. 1: Unmasking interactions between explicit and implicit learning components in the frequency domain.

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  1. Sensorimotor Superlab, Brain and Mind Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

    Olivier Codol, Giacomo Ariani & Jonathan A. Michaels

  2. Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

    Olivier Codol

  3. Department of Computer Science, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

    Giacomo Ariani

  4. Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

    Jonathan A. Michaels

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Codol, O., Ariani, G. & Michaels, J.A. Aiming for stable control. Nat Neurosci 23, 298–300 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0601-2

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