Inter-individual differences in audio-motor learning of piano melodies and white matter fiber tract architecture

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2483-2497

  Engel, Annerose ^a,b,c,d   Hijmans, Brenda S ^a   Cerliani, Leonardo ^a,b   Bangert, Marc ^c,e   Nanetti, Luca ^a   Keller, Peter E ^c,f   Keysers, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d D OR INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IDOR   (Brazil)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Fractional anisotropy; Inter individual differences; Piano learning; Tract based spatial statistics (TBSS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIO MOTOR LEARNING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FINGER; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANISOTROPY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; HEARING; INDIVIDUALITY; MUSIC; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MUSIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898028719     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22343     Document Type: Article

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