Distinct patterns of functional and structural neuroplasticity associated with learning Morse code

NeuroImage

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1234-1241

  Schmidt Wilcke, T ^a,b   Rosengarth, K ^a   Luerding, R ^a   Bogdahn, U ^a   Greenlee, M W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain morphology; Brain plasticity; Language processing; Learning; Longitudinal study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOLUNTEER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 77952429681     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.03.042     Document Type: Article

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