Functional changes in brain activity during acquisition and practice of movement sequences

Motor Control

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 500-520

  van Mier, Hanneke I ^a   Perlmutter, Joel S ^b   Petersen, Steven E ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Parietal cortex; Practice related; Premotor cortex; Primary motor cortex; Supplementary motor area

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; ADULT; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 16644370795     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.8.4.500     Document Type: Article

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