Modulation of cortical activity as a result of task-specific practice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 421, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 126-131

  Slobounov, S ^a   Ray, W ^b   Cao, C ^a   Chiang, H ^a,c  

^a Department of Kinesiology ^*  (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

EEG; End effectors; Force enslaving; Wavelet transforms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34250177223     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.077     Document Type: Article

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