Chunking during human visuomotor sequence learning

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 229-242

  Sakai, Katsuyuki ^a   Kitaguchi, Katsuya ^b   Hikosaka, Okihide ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MUKOGAWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chunk; Motor learning; Sequence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0141564821     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1548-8     Document Type: Article

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