The neural correlates of motor skill automaticity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 5356-5364

  Poldrack, Russell A ^a   Sabb, Fred W ^a   Foerde, Karin ^a   Tom, Sabrina M ^a   Asarnow, Robert F ^a   Bookheimer, Susan Y ^a   Knowlton, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Basal ganglia; Executive control; Learning; Prefrontal; Sequence learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 20044385399     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3880-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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