Where will the memory of a motor skill likely be stored?

in brain

Explanation:

When we practice a movement over and over again, we perform better, partly because we develop new motor memories, or representations, in our brains. We will not perform better if we cannot store motor representations in our brains. People who play sports or people who dance, for example, have to develop motor representations by repeating the same movements over and over, so they can perform them in different situations. The creation of better and better motor representations as we practice a movement is called motor adaptation. Motor representations are formed and stored in the brain, just like our memories of people and events. Motor representations for familiar movements, like brushing teeth, are located in a part of the brain called the left parietal lobe. We wanted to find out if motor representations for other movements are located in the left, but not the right, parietal lobe. So, we compared the motor adaptation of pointing responses in patients with left or right parietal lobe damage. We found that motor adaptation was impaired after left, but not right, parietal lobe damage, suggesting that these motor representations are also located in the left parietal lobe

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