Improvement and Decline in Tactile Discrimination Behavior after Cortical Plasticity Induced by Passive Tactile Coactivation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 442-446

  Hodzic, Amra ^a,b   Veit, Ralf ^a   Karim, Ahmed A ^a,b   Erb, Michael ^c   Godde, Ben ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Section on Experimental Radiology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional MRI; Human; Input statistics; Perceptual learning; Psychophysics; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REINFORCEMENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 1642540025     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3731-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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