Primary motor and premotor cortex in implicit sequence learning - Evidence for competition between implicit and explicit human motor memory systems

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2710-2715

  Kantak, Shailesh S ^a,b   Mummidisetty, Chaithanya K ^a   Stinear, James W ^a,c  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cognitive processes; Consolidation; Learning; Memory systems; Performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPLICIT MEMORY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPREGULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84865860650     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08175.x     Document Type: Article

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