Pharmacological modulation of perceptual learning and associated cortical reorganization

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5629, 2003, Pages 91-94

  Dinse, Hubert R ^a   Ragert, Patrick ^a   Pleger, Burkhard ^b   Schwenkreis, Peter ^b   Tegenthoff, Martin ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG PRODUCTS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PLASTICITY;

PERCEPTUAL LEARNING;

PHARMACODYNAMICS;

MEMANTINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

BIOLOGY; LEARNING;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AMPHETAMINE; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMANTINE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTION; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 0038386710     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1085423     Document Type: Article

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