Cerebellum as a forward but not inverse model in visuomotor adaptation task: a tDCS-based and modeling study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 997-1012

  Yavari, Fatemeh ^a,b   Mahdavi, Shirin ^a   Towhidkhah, Farzad ^a   Ahmadi Pajouh, Mohammad Ali ^a   Ekhtiari, Hamed ^b,c,d   Darainy, Mohammad ^e  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c INSTITUTE FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE STUDIES ICSS   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Finite element analysis; Internal forward model; Internal inverse model; Population coding; tDCS; Visuomotor adaptation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUOMOTOR ADAPTATION; WORKING MEMORY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960337717     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4523-2     Document Type: Article

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