Serial pattern learning during skilled walking

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-32

  Wallace, Douglas G ^a   Winter, Shawn S ^a   Metz, Gerlinde A ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

associative processes; implicit; motor; Rattus norvegicus; rule; sequential

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SKILL RETENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SERIAL LEARNING; WALKING;

EID: 84858644505     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: 1757448X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635212500021     Document Type: Article

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