How Skill Expertise Shapes the Brain Functional Architecture: An fMRI Study of Visuo-Spatial and Motor Processing in Professional Racing-Car and Naïve Drivers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Bernardi, Giulio ^a   Ricciardi, Emiliano ^a,b   Sani, Lorenzo ^a   Gaglianese, Anna ^a   Papasogli, Alessandra ^c   Ceccarelli, Riccardo ^c   Franzoni, Ferdinando ^a   Galetta, Fabio ^a   Santoro, Gino ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^d   Pietrini, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Formula Medicine   (Italy)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAR DRIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PROCESSING; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885745030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077764     Document Type: Article

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