This distraction did not change the motor learning benefit from watching the video.

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Other projects have explored how HRI can be applied to enhance human behavior as applied to motor learning and cognitive performance.

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This is done by examining the combined concentration of gray and white matter, or nerve cells and fiber tracts, in parts of the brain not normally used for verbal processing the hippocampus and cerebellum, normally associated with memory and motor learning.

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Those kinds of studies are more rare than straight correlative studies, but they exist and show strong evidence that learning a new motor skill (such as juggling, for example) leads to changes in the white matter of the motor cortex.

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With walls covered in calendars and color charts, and shelves and tables filled with computers, blocks, pegboards and books, it's a place to begin learning literacy, math and writing as well as to master fine motor skills and be social.

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