Why do we never lose certain skills we have learned, even if we haven’t practiced them for a long time. like for example riding a bicycle, and we lose some, like a new language we learned 10 years ago but can’t remember anything about it now?

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Why do we never lose certain skills we have learned, even if we haven’t practiced them for a long time. like for example riding a bicycle, and we lose some, like a new language we learned 10 years ago but can’t remember anything about it now?

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Answer 1

Possibly the proprioceptors in your joints ‘remember’ most movements for you. All you need to do is reinforce the activities by doing them enough times for you to do the action or activity that it might be done without deliberation … sometimes even in a hypnagogic state.