Structural correlates of skilled performance on a motor sequence task

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCTOBER 2012, 2012, Pages

  Steele, Christopher J ^a   Scholz, Jan ^b   Douaud, Gwenaëlle ^c   Johansen Berg, Heidi ^c   Penhune, Virginia B ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Grey matter volume; Individual differences; Motor sequence learningperformance; Superior longitudinal fasciculus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; PROBABILISTIC TRACTOGRAPHY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL MOTOR SEQUENCE TASK; TRACTOGRAPHY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84933670227     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00289     Document Type: Article

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