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Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMed Central Research Open Access Preserved motor learning after stroke is related to the degree of proprioceptive deficit 1 2 Eric D Vidoni and Lara A Boyd* Address: 1Department of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA and 2Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Email: Eric D Vidoni - evidoni@; Lara A Boyd* - lara.boyd@ubc.ca * Corresponding author Published: 28 August 2009 Received: 10 February 2009 Accepted: 28 August 2009 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2009, 5:36 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-5-36 This article is available from: /content/5/1/36 © 2009 Vidoni and Boyd; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Most motor learning theories posit that proprioceptive sensation serves an important role in acquiring and performing movement patterns. However, we recently demonstrated that experimental disruption of proprioception peripherally altered motor performance but not motor learning in humans. Little work has considered humans with central nervous system damage. The purpose of