Novel vibrotactile discrimination task for investigating the neural correlates of short-term learning with fMRI

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-74

  Tang, Kenneth ^a,d   Staines, W Richard ^b,c,d   Black, Sandra E ^a,c,d   McIlroy, William E ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

fMRI; Methods; Neuroimaging; Short term learning; Somatosensory cortex; Tactile learning; Vibrotactile discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRATION SENSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOUCH; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59249090244     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.11.024     Document Type: Article

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