Practice is vital to the acquisition of new skills, but the brain does not stop processing information
when practice stops. After practice, changes take place that strengthen and modify the …

Aim: To review quantitative studies of safety climate in health care to examine the
psychometric properties of the questionnaires designed to measure this construct. Method: A …

… disrupts the declarative component and so allows the off-line enhancement of the procedural
component of the SRTT (Brown and Robertson, 2007). … Robertson EM … Robertson EM …

Motor skills are required for activities of daily living. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
applied in association with motor skill learning has been investigated as a tool for …

Behind every skilled movement lies months of practice. However, practice alone is not
responsible for the acquisition of all skill; performance can improve between, not just within, …

Functionally related brain networks are engaged even in the absence of an overt behavior.
The role of this resting state activity, evident as low-frequency fluctuations of BOLD (see [1] …

Acquiring a new skill requires learning multiple aspects of a task simultaneously. For example,
learning a piano sonata requires learning the musical notes and being able to implement …

We are all familiar with acquiring skills during practice, but skill can also continue to develop
between practice sessions. These “off-line” improvements are frequently supported by sleep…

… Robertson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction …

The acquisition of declarative (ie, facts) and procedural (ie, skills) memories may be supported
by independent systems. This same organization may exist, after memory acquisition, …