Do you remember the name of your second-grade teacher or what you ate for lunch today? Those memories may be separated by decades, but both are considered long-term memories. More than half a century ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--Researchers at the University of Minnesota have demonstrated the role of the brain's cerebellum during motor skill learning. By separating the effects of motor learning from ...

The cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") has long been considered the seat of muscle memory and learning new motor skills. When I was growing up, my father, who was both a neuroscientist and my ...

A new study has identified a marker in the brain that controls the ability to reach and grasp, a fundamental fine motor skill that is often impaired in motor or neural injuries such as a stroke. The ...

The research group lead by Tomoo Hirano (Professor, Graduate School of Science) and its member, Shinsuke Tanaka (Graduate Student) et al. found that synaptic plasticity at cerebellar inhibitory ...

Almost everyone is familiar with the unique mixture of surprise and confusion that occurs after making a mistake during an everyday movement. It's a fairly startling experience - stumbling on a step ...

Cerebellum highlighted in orange with magnified close-up of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Cerebellar means "relating to the cerebellum." Source: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock In the mid-1970s, my ...

Almost everyone is familiar with the unique mixture of surprise and confusion that occurs after making a mistake during an everyday movement. It's a fairly startling experience - stumbling on a step ...

The cerebellar posterior vermis generates an estimation of our motion (translation) and orientation (tilt) in space using cues originating from semicircular canals and otolith organs. Theoretical work ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, identified a receptor that plays a crucial role in stress-induced motor ...