Experience-dependent plasticity in white matter microstructure: Reasoning training alters structural connectivity

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn , Issue JULY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Mackey, Allyson P ^a   Whitaker, Kirstie J ^a   Bunge, Silvia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXAMINATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEDITATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; REASONING; REASONING TRAINING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SKILL; TRAINING; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER PLASTICITY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84865100066     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2012.00032     Document Type: Article

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