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A review of the literature on motor behavior suggests that there have been few attempts to understand motor learning and motor control from a common theoretical perspective. Both fields of study have a long history of research but with little overlap. This is unfortunate since the development of knowledge in each field must ultimately depend on the development of knowledge in the other. For example, many experimental results in the motor control literature are potentially confounded by the prior history of experimental subjects and the degree of learning that took place before and during data collection. Experimental paradigms requiring subjects “not to intervene” (Asatryan and Feldman, 1965; Gottlieb and Agarwal, 1988) usually require considerable subject practice and are seldom possible in untrained subjects.
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Corcos, D.M., Gottlieb, G.L., Jaric, S., Cromwell, R.L., Agarwal, G.C. (1990). Organizing Principles Underlying Motor Skill Acquisition. In: Winters, J.M., Woo, S.LY. (eds) Multiple Muscle Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9030-5_15
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