{"id":10659,"date":"2021-03-31T10:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T09:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/?p=10659"},"modified":"2025-05-29T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:30:22","slug":"consolidation-mnesique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/consolidation-mnesique\/","title":{"rendered":"Offline gains: take a break to progress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have you ever worked on a movement that was challenging, and, without practicing it much again \u2014 or even at all \u2014 found yourself better at it a few days or weeks later? That\u2019s what offline gains are; sort of delayed motor skill improvements that happen after we are performing a task (e. g., playing an instrument or learning a choreography).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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During this consolidation phase, we may have the impression to be stagnant and to not improve at all. But, surprisingly, the area of the brain processing that particular motor skill is still active and assimilating it, even when we are not directly practicing that skill (Lugassy et al<\/em>., 2018).<\/p>

B\u00f6nstrup et al<\/em>. (2019) suggests that in order to better assimilate a new skill, taking short breaks of only ten seconds is more effective than practicing a skill without a break during its execution. Even more interesting: consolidation of a new motor skill isn\u2019t, contrary to popular belief, sleep-dependent \u2014 at least in healthy adults. Whenever your brain isn\u2019t working directly on that specific motor skill, the consolidation happens, whether you sleep or not. Basically, you\u2019re not learning when performing the movement, but after performing it (Dezso et al<\/em>., 2010).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Learning a new skill isn't just about repeating it, since many factors are playing a role in its retention \u2014 and taking a break is one of them.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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B\u00f6nstrup, M., Iturrate, I., Thompson, R., Cruciani, G., Censor, N., & Cohen, L. G. (2019). A Rapid Form of Offline Consolidation in Skill Learning<\/a>. Current Biology, 29<\/em>(8). doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cub.2019.02.049<\/a><\/p>\n\n

\nLugassy, D., Herszage, J., Pilo, R., Brosh, T., & Censor, N. (2018). Consolidation of complex motor skill learning: evidence for a delayed offline process<\/a>. Sleep, 41<\/em>(9), doi.org\/10.1093\/sleep\/zsy123<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nemeth, D., Janacsek, K., Londe, Z., Ullman, M. T., Howard, D. V., & Howard, J. H., Jr (2010). Sleep has no critical role in implicit motor sequence learning in young and old adults.<\/a> Experimental brain research, 201<\/em>(2), 351\u2013358. doi.org\/10.1007\/s00221-009-2024-x<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Learn what offline gains are and why taking a break is crucial to better assimilate new motor skills.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[195,194,150,151,148,147,149],"class_list":["post-10659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-apprentissage","tag-consolidation-mnesique","tag-learning","tag-motor-skills","tag-neuroplasticity","tag-offline-gains","tag-rest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3771836-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10659"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14879,"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions\/14879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mouvements-modernes.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}