Procedural learning in humans

Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 321-340

  Knowlton, B J ^a   Moody, T D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Basal ganglia; Category learning; Caudate nucleus; Classification learning; Feedback; fMRI; Habit learning; Implicit learning; Motor learning; Nondeclarative learning; Putamen; Rule learning; Skill learning; Striatum

Indexed keywords

EID: 85079262595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012370509-9.00123-6     Document Type: Chapter

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