Practice and perfect: Length of training and structural brain changes in experienced typists

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1063-1066

  Cannonieri, Gianna C ^a   Bonilha, Leonardo ^b   Fernandes, Paula T ^a   Cendes, Fernando ^a   Li, Li M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Motor skills; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRAINING; WORK EXPERIENCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250195007     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3281a030e5     Document Type: Article

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