Procedural Learning: How Skills Become Automatic | Dr. Sydney Ceruto, MindLAB
The Cerebellum’s Hidden Role in Professional Skill Mastery: How Procedural Learning Builds Unconscious Competence Procedural learning rewires the cerebellum and basal ganglia to make complex skills automatic — driven by climbing-fiber error signals refining cerebellar forward models and dorsolateral striatum encoding stimulus-response patterns. The result is unconscious competence: skilled performance executed below conscious awareness while attention frees for higher-order problems. ...
