Rule learning in a serial reaction time task: An fMRI study on patients with early Parkinson's disease

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 273-284

  Werheid, Katja ^a,c   Zysset, Stefan ^a   Muller A ^b   Reuter, M ^d   Von Cramon, D Yves ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Frontal cortex; Procedural learning; Sequence learning; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TASK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0037380011     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00283-5     Document Type: Article

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