Lesions of the premotor and supplementary motor areas fail to prevent implicit learning in the operant serial implicit learning task

Brain Research

Volumn 1284, Issue , 2009, Pages 116-124

  Brooks, Simon P ^a   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical lesions; Implicit learning; Motor learning; Motor performance; Rat; SILT task

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 67651125058     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.05.081     Document Type: Article

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