Learning hierarchically structured action sequences is unaffected by prefrontal-cortex lesion

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 667-675

  Koch, Iring ^a,b   Reverberi, Carlo ^c,d   Rumiati, Raffaella I ^c,e  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action sequences; Hierarchies; Prefrontal cortex; Procedural learning; Serial reaction time task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750817654     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0584-6     Document Type: Article

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