Shifts in connectivity during procedural learning after motor cortex stimulation: A combined transcranial magnetic stimulation/functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Cortex

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 134-148

  Steel, Adam ^a   Song, Sunbin ^a   Bageac, Devin ^a   Knutson, Kristine M ^a   Keisler, Aysha ^a   Saad, Ziad S ^b   Gotts, Stephen J ^b   Wassermann, Eric M ^a   Wilkinson, Leonora ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous theta burst stimulation; Functional connectivity; Primary motor cortex; Probabilistic sequence learning; Procedural learning

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949226853     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.10.004     Document Type: Article

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