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Nature Neuroscience 11, 248 - 249 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0308-248
Malleable templates: reshaping our crystallized skills to create new outcomes
Scott T Grafton1
- The author is in the Department of Psychology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. e-mail: grafton@psych.ucsb.edu
Abstract
Even well-practiced skills show trial-by-trial variations. A study in Nature suggests that such variability may be adaptive, allowing for plasticity in apparently crystallized skills, which should therefore be considered more like templates.
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