Author(s): Penhune VB; Steele CJ;

When learning a new motor sequence, we must execute the correct order of movements while simultaneously optimizing sensorimotor parameters such as trajectory, timing, velocity and force. Neurophysiological studies in animals and humans have identified the major brain regions involved in sequence learning, including the motor cortex (M1), basal ganglia (BG ...

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Author(s): Virginia B Penhune

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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Author(s): Penhune V; de Villers-Sidani E;

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Author(s): Padrão G; Penhune V; de Diego-Balaguer R; Marco-Pallares J; Rodriguez-Fornells A;

The ability to detect and use information from errors is essential during the acquisition of new skills. There is now a wealth of evidence about the brain mechanisms involved in error processing. However, the extent to which those mechanisms are engaged during the acquisition of new motor skills remains elusive. Here we examined rhythm synchronization lea ...

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Author(s): Villeneuve M; Penhune V; Lamontagne A;

Objective: Music-supported therapy was shown to induce improvements in motor skills in stroke survivors. Whether all stroke individuals respond similarly to the intervention and whether gains can be maintained over time remain unknown. We estimated the immediate and retention effects of a piano training program on upper extremity function in persons with ...

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Author(s): Matthews TE; Thibodeau JN; Gunther BP; Penhune VB;

Studies comparing musicians and non-musicians have shown that musical training can improve rhythmic perception and production. These findings tell us that training can result in rhythm processing advantages, but they do not tell us whether practicing a particular instrument could lead to specific effects on rhythm perception or production. The current stu ...

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Author(s): Simó M; Gurtubay-Antolin A; Vaquero L; Bruna J; Rodríguez-Fornells A;

No previous event-related potentials (ERPs) study has explored the error-related negativity (ERN) - an ERP component indexing performance monitoring - associated to cancer and chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment in a lung cancer population. The aim of this study was to examine differences in performance monitoring in a small-cell lung cancer group ( ...

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Author(s): Ireland K; Parker A; Foster N; Penhune V;

Measuring musical abilities in childhood can be challenging. When music training and maturation occur simultaneously, it is difficult to separate the effects of specific experience from age-based changes in cognitive and motor abilities. The goal of this study was to develop age-equivalent scores for two measures of musical ability that could be reliably ...

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Author(s): Wollman I; Penhune V; Segado M; Carpentier T; Zatorre RJ;

The auditory and motor neural systems are closely intertwined, enabling people to carry out tasks such as playing a musical instrument whose mapping between action and sound is extremely sophisticated. While the dorsal auditory stream has been shown to mediate these audio-motor transformations, little is known about how such mapping emerges with training. ...

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Author(s): Vaquero L; Ramos-Escobar N; François C; Penhune V; Rodríguez-Fornells A;

Music learning has received increasing attention in the last decades due to the variety of functions and brain plasticity effects involved during its practice. Most previous reports interpreted the differences between music experts and laymen as the result of training. However, recent investigations suggest that these differences are due to a combination ...

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Author(s): Matthews TE; Witek MAG; Heggli OA; Penhune VB; Vuust P;

The pleasurable desire to move to music, also known as groove, is modulated by rhythmic complexity. How the sensation of groove is influenced by other musical features, such as the harmonic complexity of individual chords, is less clear. To address this, we asked people with a range of musical experience to rate stimuli that varied in both rhythmic and ha ...

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Author(s): Arbuckle TY, Gold DP, Andres D, Schwartzman A, Chaikelson J

Psychol Aging. 1992 Mar;7(1):25-36 Authors: Arbuckle TY, Gold DP, Andres D, Schwartzman A, Chaikelson J

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