Learning-related gray and white matter changes in humans: An update

Neuroscientist

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 320-325

  Taubert, Marco ^a   Villringer, Arno ^b,c   Ragert, Patrick ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

fractional anisotropy; gray matter; structural plasticity; voxel based morphometry; white matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTOGENESIS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84862992742     PISSN: 10738584     EISSN: 10894098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073858411419048     Document Type: Article

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