Off-line learning and the primary motor cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 27, 2005, Pages 6372-6378

  Robertson, Edwin M ^a   Press, Daniel Z ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

Learning and memory; Motor control; Motor cortex; Motor learning; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Sensorimotor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FINGERS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 21844444536     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1851-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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