How aging reshapes sensorimotor learning: Older adults may lose explicit strategy but gain implicit adaptation

MedicalXpress | Mai 31, 2026

When most humans reach late adulthood, their ability to coordinate movements and maintain balance, broadly referred to as motor control, tends to gradually decline. While these changes in motor control are widely documented, the extent to which they also affect sensorimotor learning (i.e., the adaptation of movements based on information from the environment) remains unclear.