Monday, August 26, 2013

Neural encoding of movement sequences in the human brain

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http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences//retrieve/pii/S1364661313001733?
Virginia B. Penhune 
Laboratory for motor learning and neural plasticity, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke, West Montreal, Québec H4B 1R6, Canada


Abstract

Humans learn and remember thousands of motor skills, but how these skills are represented in the brain is not well understood. A recent study by Wiestler and Diedrichsen demonstrates for the first time that individual motor sequences can be identified based on the pattern of neural activity in a distributed network of motor cortical regions.

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