Practice makes perfect: The neural substrates of tactile discrimination by Mah-Jong experts include the primary visual cortex

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Saito, Daisuke N ^a,b   Okada, Tomohisa ^a   Honda, Manabu ^c   Yonekura, Yoshiharu ^d   Sadato, Norihiro ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAILLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEISURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33845649007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-7-79     Document Type: Article

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