How finger tapping practice enhances efficiency of motor control

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1565-1569

  Koeneke, Susan ^a   Lutz, Kai ^a   Esslen, Michaela ^a   Jäncke, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythm; Cerebral dominance; Finger movements; Human; Motor cortex; Motor training; Rate effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FINGER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749008493     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000234748.80936.1d     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Classen J, Liepert J, Wise SP, Hallett M, Cohen LG. Rapid plasticity of human cortical movement representation induced by practice. J Neurophysiol 1998; 79:1117-1123.
2. Lutz K, Koeneke S, Wustenberg T, Jancke L. Asymmetry of cortical activation during maximum and convenient tapping speed. Neurosci Lett 2005; 373:61-66.
3. Jancke L, Peters M, Schlaug G, Posse S, Steinmetz H, Muller-Gartner H. Differential magnetic resonance signal change in human sensorimotor cortex to finger movements of different rate of the dominant and subdominant hand. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 1998; 6:279-284.
4. Jancke L, Specht K, Mirzazade S, Loose R, Himmelbach M, Lutz K, et al. A parametric analysis of the 'rate effect' in the sensorimotor cortex: a functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis in human subjects. Neurosci Lett 1998; 252:37-40.
5. Karni A, Meyer G, Jezzard P, Adams MM, Turner R, Ungerleider LG. Functional MRI evidence for adult motor cortex plasticity during motor skill learning. Nature 1995; 377:155-158.
6. Pascual-Leone A, Nguyet D, Cohen LG, Brasil-Neto JP, Cammarota A, Hallett M. Modulation of muscle responses evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation during the acquisition of new fine motor skills. J Neurophysiol 1995; 74:1037-1045.
7. Toni I, Krams M, Turner R, Passingham RE. The time course of changes during motor sequence learning: a whole- brain fMRI study. Neuroimage 1998; 8:50-61.
8. Doyon J, Benali H. Reorganization and plasticity in the adult brain during learning of motor skills. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2005; 15:161-167.
9. Schaefer M, Rothemund Y, Heinze HJ, Rotte M. Short-term plasticity of the primary somatosensory cortex during tool use. Neuroreport 2004; 15:1293-1297.
10. Jancke L, Baumann S, Koeneke S, Meyer M, Laeng B, Peters M, et al. Neural control of playing a reversed piano: empirical evidence for an unusual cortical organization of musical functions. Neuroreport 2006; 17:447-451.
11. Annett M. A classification of hand preference by association analysis. Br J Psychol 1970; 61:303-321.
12. Steingruber HJ. Measuring of laterality. Z Exp Angew Psychol 1971; 18:337-357.
13. Pascual-Marqui RD, Esslen M, Kochi K, Lehmann D. Functional imaging with low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (LORETA): a review. Methods Find Exp Clin Pharmacol 2002; 24(Suppl C):91-95.
14. Klimesch W. EEG alpha and theta oscillations reflect cognitive and memory performance: a review and analysis. Brain Res Brain Res Rev 1999; 29:169-195.
15. Pineda JA. The functional significance of mu rhythms: translating 'seeing' and 'hearing' into 'doing'. Brain Res Brain Res Rev 2005; 50:57-68.
16. Koeneke S, Lutz K, Wustenberg T, Jancke L. Long-term training affects cerebellar processing in skilled keyboard players. Neuroreport 2004; 15:1279-1282.
17. Gerloff C, Richard J, Hadley J, Schulman AE, Honda M, Hallett M. Functional coupling and regional activation of human cortical motor areas during simple, internally paced and externally paced finger movements. Brain 1998; 121:1513-1531.
18. Pfurtscheller G, Aranibar A. Event-related cortical desynchronization detected by power measurements of scalp EEG. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1977; 42:817-826.
19. Hammond G, Bolton Y, Plant Y, Manning J. Hand asymmetries in interresponse intervals during rapid repetitive finger tapping. J Mot Behav 1988; 20:67-71.
20. Jancke L, Schlaug G, Steinmetz H. Hand skill asymmetry in professional musicians. Brain Cogn 1997; 34:424-432.
21. Aoki T, Francis PR, Kinoshita H. Differences in the abilities of individual fingers during the performance of fast, repetitive tapping movements. Exp Brain Res 2003; 152:270-280.
22. Peters M. Prolonged practice of a simple motor task by preferred and nonpreferred hands. Percept Mot Skills 1976; 42:447-450.
23. Jancke L, Specht K, Mirzazade S, Loose R, Himmelbach M, Lutz K, et al. A parametric analysis of the 'rate effect' in the sensorimotor cortex: a functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis in human subjects. Neurosci Lett 1998; 252:37-40.
24. Ashe J, Georgopoulos AP. Movement parameters and neural activity in motor cortex and area 5. Cereb Cortex 1994; 4:590-600.
25. Jancke L, Steinmetz H, Benilow S, Ziemann U. Slowing fastest finger movements of the dominant hand with low-frequency rTMS of the hand area of the primary motor cortex. Exp Brain Res 2004; 155:196-203.
26. Nyberg L, Eriksson J, Larsson A, Marklund P. Learning by doing versus learning by thinking: an fMRI study of motor and mental training. Neuropsychologia 2006; 44:711-717.
27. Doyon J, Benali H. Reorganization and plasticity in the adult brain during learning of motor skills. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2005; 15:161-167.