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Functional anatomy of human procedural learning determined with regional cerebral blood flow and PET
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The functional anatomy of motor skill acquisition was investigated in six normal human subjects who learned to perform a pursuit rotor task with their dominant right hand during serial positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of relative cerebral blood flow (relCBF). The effect of motor execution, rather than learning, was identified by a comparison of four motor performance scans with two control scans (eye movements only). Motor execution was associated with activation of a distributed network involving cortical, striatonigral, and cerebellar sites. Second, the effect of early motor learning was examined. Performance improved from 17% to 66% mean time on target across the four PET scans obtained during pursuit rotor performance. Across the same scans, significant longitudinal increases of relCBF were located in the left primary motor cortex, the left supplementary motor area, and the left pulvinar thalamus. The results demonstrate that changes of regional cerebral activity associated with early learning of skilled movements occur in sites that are a subset of a more widely distributed network that is active during motor execution.
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- Authors
- Grafton, S., Mazziotta, J., Presty, S., Friston, K., Frackowiak, R., & Phelps, M.
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 1992-07-01
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2542-2548
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6575851
- OpenAlex
- W2124365503
- Cited by
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- FWCI
- 16.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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- hybrid
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- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
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- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy (FC03-87ER60615)
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh037916-10)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH 37916)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Deep Brain Stimulation and Movement Disorders
- Keywords
- procedural learning, motor skill learning, pursuit rotor task, relative cerebral blood flow, primary motor cortex, supplementary motor area, cerebellum, motor execution
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Eye Movements, Female, Humans, Functional Laterality, Learning, Male, Motor Activity, Movement, Organ Specificity, Regional Blood Flow, Tomography, Emission-Computed
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