The role of the primary motor cortex during skill acquisition on a two-degrees-of-freedom movement task

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-39

  Shemmell, Jonathan ^a,b   Riek, Stephan ^a   Tresilian, James R ^a   Carson, Richard G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm; Motor learning; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SKILL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33846589925     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JMBR.39.1.29-39     Document Type: Article

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