Cortical beta oscillations are associated with motor performance following visuomotor learning.

ABSTRACT: People vary in their capacity to learn and retain new motor skills. Although the relationship between neuronal oscillations in the beta frequency range (15-30 Hz) and motor behaviour is well established, the electrophysiological mechanisms underlying individual differences in motor learning are incompletely understood. Here, we investigated the degree to which measures of resting and movement-related beta power from sensorimotor cortex account for inter-individual differences in motor learning behaviour in the young and elderly. Twenty young (18-30 years) and twenty elderly (62-77 years) healthy adults were trained on a novel wrist flexion/extension tracking task and subsequently retested at two different time points (45-60 min and 24 h after initial training). Scalp EEG was recorded durin

SUBMITTER: Espenhahn S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6547051 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature