Learning sculpts the spontaneous activity of the resting human brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 41, 2009, Pages 17558-17563

  Lewis, Christopher M ^a   Baldassarre, Antonello ^a   Committeri, Giorgia ^a   Romani, Gian Luca ^a   Corbetta, Maurizio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Functional connectivity; Perceptual learning; Resting state

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REST; THINKING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350236591     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902455106     Document Type: Article

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