Abstract
This paper is an exploratory discussion of “Object-based Learning” from a neuroscience perspective. Specifically, the paper divides learning into two categories, namely, acquisition of knowledge in the form of statements (explicit memory) and motor learning, and focuses on the latter. It is known that the type of motor learning and their retention effect can change depending on the external environment experienced by the body. In a study conducted by the authors, when two different motor learning environments, a rapidly increasing force field and a gradually increasing force field, were designed, the latter showed a significant prolongation of the retention effect. Thus, neuroscience research has examined the effects of a dynamical system that is an external environment in which perturbations to the body are dynamically altered, on learning. These findings suggest the importance of including the dynamically changing external environment as one of the objects in the range and focusing on the effects of its properties on learning.
