Functional and Structural Plasticity Co-express in a Left Premotor Region During Early Bimanual Skill Learning.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Motor skill learning already triggers the functional reorganization of regional brain activity after short periods of training. Recent studies suggest that microstructural change may emerge at similar timescales, but the spatiotemporal profiles of functional and structural plasticity have rarely been traced in parallel. Recently, we demonstrated that 5 days of endoscopic skill training induces changes in task-related brain activity in the ventral premotor cortex (PMv) and other areas of the frontoparietal grasping network. Here, we analyzed microstructural data, collected during the same experiment to investigate if microstructural plasticity overlaps temporally and spatially with the training-induced changes in task-related brain activity. Materials and Methods

SUBMITTER: Irmen F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7456840 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature