Contribution of the premotor cortex to consolidation of motor sequence learning in humans during sleep

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2603-2614

  Nitsche, Michael A ^a   Jakoubkova, Michaela ^a,b   Thirugnanasambandam, Nivethida ^a   Schmalfuss, Leonie ^a   Hullemann, Sandra ^a   Sonka, Karel ^b   Paulus, Walter ^a   Trenkwalder, Claudia ^a   Happe, Svenja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; REACTION TIME; SLEEP;

EID: 78049498988     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00611.2010     Document Type: Article

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