Learning to tie the knot: The acquisition of functional object representations by physical and observational experience.

ABSTRACT: Here we examined neural substrates for physically and observationally learning to construct novel objects, and characterized brain regions associated with each kind of learning using fMRI. Each participant was assigned a training partner, and for five consecutive days practiced tying one group of knots ("tied" condition) or watched their partner tie different knots ("watched" condition) while a third set of knots remained untrained. Functional MRI was obtained prior to and immediately following the week of training while participants performed a visual knot-matching task. After training, a portion of left superior parietal lobule demonstrated a training by scan session interaction. This means this parietal region responded selectively to knots that participants had physically learned to ti

SUBMITTER: Cross ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5638238 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature