Learning transfer and neuronal plasticity in humans trained in tactile discrimination

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 151-154

  Spengler, Friederike ^a   Roberts, Timothy P L ^b   Poeppel, David ^b   Byl, Nancy ^b   Wang, Xiaoqin ^b   Rowley, Howard A ^b   Merzenich, Mike M ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Afferent; Attention; Discrimination; Evoked fields; Magnetoencephalography; Psychophysics; Reorganization; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030822661     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00602-2     Document Type: Article

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