Changes in gray matter induced by learning - Revisited

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Driemeyer, Joenna ^a   Boyke, Janina ^a   Gaser, Christian ^b   Büchel, Christian ^a   May, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUNTEER; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; HISTOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 50549099493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002669     Document Type: Article

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