Motor Training Increases the Stability of Activation Patterns in the Primary Motor Cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Yi ^a   Zhen, Zonglei ^a   Song, Yiying ^a   Zhu, Qi ^a   Wang, Song ^a   Liu, Jia ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MULTI VOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN STIMULATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872160136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053555     Document Type: Article

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