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Neural encoding of movement sequences in the human brain

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...

Article GUID: 23973185
Title:Neural encoding of movement sequences in the human brain
Authors:Virginia B Penhune
Link:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23973185/
DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2013.08.008
Category:Trends Cogn Sci
PMID:23973185
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Laboratory for motor learning and neural plasticity, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke, West Montreal, Québec H4B 1R6, Canada. Electronic address: virginia.penhune@concordia.ca.

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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.