The activity in the contralateral primary motor cortex, dorsal premotor and supplementary motor area is modulated by performance gains

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 APR, 2014, Pages

  Sosnik, Ronen ^a   Flash, Tamar ^a   Sterkin, Anna ^b   Hauptmann, Bjoern ^c,d   Karni, Avi ^e  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Segeberger Kliniken   (Germany)

^d Asklepios Medical School Hamburg   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Co articulation; fMRI; Motion smoothness; Motor learning; Movement sequence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA;

EID: 84898905065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00201     Document Type: Article

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