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Age-related changes in neural plasticity after motor learning
Berghuis, Kelly Mathilda Maria
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Publication date: 2019
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Berghuis, K. M. M. (2019). Age-related changes in neural plasticity after motor learning. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
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Propositions
Belonging to the thesis
Age-related changes in neural plasticity after motor learning
By Kelly Berghuis
1. The ability to learn a visuomotor skill is preserved in older age. (this thesis) 2. Without consolidating a skill into motor memory, motor skill acquisition is
meaningless. (this thesis)
3. Neural plasticity after visuomotor skill acquisition does not change with increasing age but older adults adapt to structural changes in the brain by increasing brain activation during visuomotor task execution. (this thesis) 4. Older adults use alternative strategies of neural plasticity compared with
young adults to consolidate and retain a visuomotor skill (this thesis) 5. Reporting whether results concern absolute or relative changes is crucial for
the interpretation. (this thesis)
6. Inattention to the restricted explanatory scope of the TMS technique is restricting the elaboration of knowledge concerning the neural processes that mediate human motor learning. (Carson et al. 2016, this thesis)
7. Science is but an image of the truth. (Francis Bacon)
8. If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. (Rolf-Dieter Heuer)
9. Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. (Betty Friedan)
