Age related differences in the neural substrates of motor sequence learning after interleaved and repetitive practice

NeuroImage

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2007-2020

  Lin, Chien Ho Janice ^a,b   Chiang, Ming Chang ^c   Wu, Allan D ^a,b   Iacoboni, Marco ^b   Udompholkul, Parima ^a   Yazdanshenas, Omid ^b   Knowlton, Barbara J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aging; Contextual interference; FMRI; Practice condition; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; ROSTRAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84863750074     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.015     Document Type: Article

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