To Perform With Less Effort, Practice Beyond Perfection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120209144013.htm

ScienceDaily (Feb. 9, 2012) — Whether you are an athlete, a musician or a stroke patient learning to walk again, practice can make perfect, but more practice may make you more efficient, according to a surprising new University of Colorado Boulder study.

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"The message from this study is that in order to perform with less effort, keep on practicing, even after it seems as if the task has been learned," said Ahmed of CU-Boulder's integrative physiology department. "We have shown there is an advantage to continued practice beyond any visible changes in performance."

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