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Conscious awareness of action potentiates sensorimotor learning

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Many everyday skills are unconsciously learned through repetitions of the same behaviour by binding independent motor acts into unified sets of actions. However, our ability to be consciously aware of producing newly and highly trained motor skills raises the question of the role played by conscious awareness of action upon skill acquisition. In this study we strengthened conscious awareness of self-produced sequential finger movements by way of asking participants to judge their performance in terms of maximal fluency after each trial. Control conditions in which participants did not make any judgment or performance-unrelated judgments were also included. Findings indicate that conscious awareness of action, enhanced via subjective appraisal of motor efficiency, potentiates sensorimotor learning and skilful motor production in optimising the processing and sequencing of action units, as compared to the control groups. The current work lends support to the claim that the learning and skilful expression of sensorimotor behaviours might be grounded upon our ability to be consciously aware of our own motor capability and efficiency.
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hal-01662865 , version 1 (13-12-2017)

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Arnaud Boutin, Yannick Blandin, Cristina Massen, Herbert Heuer, Arnaud Badets. Conscious awareness of action potentiates sensorimotor learning. Cognition, 2014, 133 (1), pp.1 - 9. ⟨10.1016/j.cognition.2014.05.012⟩. ⟨hal-01662865⟩
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