Experience-dependent plasticity of conceptual representations in human sensory-motor areas

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 525-542

  Kiefer, Markus ^a   Sim, Eun Jin ^a,b   Liebich, Sarah ^a   Hauk, Olaf ^c   Tanaka, James ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Transfer Center for Neurosciences and Learning   (Germany)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRAINING;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 33847793185     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.3.525     Document Type: Article

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