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Motor memory consolidation (and reconsolidation following reactivation) are central to the retention and improvement of newly learned skills. By using targeted magnetic brain stimulation following learning the present studies will determine the relative involvement of motor and somatosensory cortex in the consolidation process and by using stimulation sequences that have excitatory effects we will test the possibility of improving both consolidation and subsequent motor memory retrieval. Identification of the areas involved and the possibility of facilitating their role in the storage and retrieval of learned skills would have wide applicability in the development of new rehabilitation and re-training protocols.