Microstructural organization of corpus callosum projections to prefrontal cortex predicts bimanual motor learning

Learning and Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 351-357

  Sisti, Helene M ^a   Geurts, Monique ^a   Gooijers, Jolien ^a   Heitger, Marcus H ^a   Caeyenberghs, Karen ^a   Beets, Iseult A M ^a   Serbruyns, Leen ^a   Leemans, Alexander ^b   Swinnen, Stephan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865251689     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.026534.112     Document Type: Article

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