Harnessing attention to a metronome's tone during skill practice can accelerate plasticity and skill acquisition.

“use things like metronoming where you're queuing your attention to some external cue, some stimulus, in this case, an auditory stimulus most likely and trying to generate more repetitions per unit time.”

“what you're essentially doing is you're creating an outside pressure a contingency so that you generate again more errors so it's all about the errors that you get and if you harness your attention to this outside contingency this metronome that's firing off and saying now go now go now go not only can you increase the number of repetitions errors and successes but for some reason and we don't know why the regular Cadence of the tone of the metronome and the fact that you are anchoring your movements to some external Force to some external pressure or Q seems to accelerate the plasticity and the changes and the acquisition of skills beyond what it would be if you just did the same number of repetitions without that outside pressure”

“if you do that what athletes find is they can perform more repetitions they can generate more output you can increase speed a number of really interesting things that are being done with auditory metronom”

“the fact that you are anchoring your movements to some external Force to some external pressure or Q seems to accelerate the plasticity and the changes and the acquisition of skills beyond what it would be if you did the same number of repetitions without that outside pressure”