White matter microstructural correlates of superior long-term skill gained implicitly under randomized practice

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1671-1677

  Song, Sunbin ^a   Sharma, Nikhil ^a   Buch, Ethan R ^a,b   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

consolidation; contextual interference; diffusion tensor iming; magnetic resonance imaging; motor learning; motor sequence; online learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT LEARNING; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SKILL; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862857617     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr247     Document Type: Article

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