Effects of repetitive motor training on movement representations in adult squirrel monkeys: role of use versus learning.

By E. Plautz, G. W. Milliken, R. Nudo. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 2000

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Principles of experience-dependent neural plasticity: implications for rehabilitation after brain damage. (2008, background): “Repetition of previously acquired motor movements, however, has not been found to result in significant synapse addition or map expansion inmotor cortex in animalmodels (Plautz et al., 2000; Kleim, Cooper, & VandenBerg, 2002).”
Cortical Synaptogenesis and Motor Map Reorganization Occur during Late, But Not Early, Phase of Motor Skill Learning (2004, background): “Neither repetition of unskilled movements (Kleim et al., 1998a; Plautz et al., 2000), strength training (Remple et al.”
Sensorimotor Training in Virtual Reality: A Review (2009, positive): “For example, changes at the synaptic level are evident in the rodent brain after the animal is exposed to thousands of repetitions of a given task over a short interval of time, i.e. 12,000 repetitions over 2–3 days [88] [101].”