Neural correlates of skill acquisition: Decreased cortical activity during a serial interception sequence learning task

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1150-1157

  Gobel, Eric W ^a   Parrish, Todd B ^a,b   Reber, Paul J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Implicit learning; Motor control; Nondeclarative memory; Sequence learning; Timing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CORPUS STRIATUM; CUES; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052644761     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.090     Document Type: Article

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