Adaptations during the acquisition of expertise

Talent Development and Excellence

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-15

  Gruber, Hans ^a   Jansen, Petra ^a   Marienhagen, Joerg ^b   Altenmueller, Eckart ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c Hanover University of Music and Drama   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptations; Deliberate practice; Expertise; Functional neural plasticity; Physiological plasticity; Structural neural plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959461269     PISSN: 18690459     EISSN: 18692885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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