The mind of expert motor performance is cool and focused

NeuroImage

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 804-813

  Milton, John ^a   Solodkin, Ana ^a   Hluštík, Petr ^a   Small, Steven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Golf; Limbic; Motor learning; Motor planning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORT;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; GOLF; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33947176184     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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