Paradigms drawn from cognitive psychology have provided new insight into covert stages of
action. These states include not only intending actions that will eventually be executed, but …

Jackson PL, Lafleur MF, Malouin F, Richards C, Doyon J. Potential role of mental practice
using motor imagery in neurologic rehabilitation. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001; 82: 1133-41 …

This paper supports the contention that the brain stores memories in the form of a central
representation that is accessed by both physical preparation and execution and, more …

Musicians form an ideal subject pool in which one can investigate possible cerebral
adaptations to unique requirements of skilled performance as well as cerebral correlates of …

Since the 1870s, the primary motor cortex (M1) has been known to have a somatotopic
organization, with different regions of cortex participating in control of face, arm, and leg …

FOR THE PAST 200 YEARS, virtually all attempts to account for the neural bases and the
evolution of human language have focused on the neocortex. And in the past 40 years …

Based upon neurophysiologic, neuroanatomic, and neuroimaging studies conducted over
the past two decades, the cerebral cortex can now be viewed as functionally and structurally …

Motor practice may lead to expansion of trained representations in the motor cortex, but it is
unknown whether this practice-dependent plasticity can be purposefully enhanced or …

By a variety of mechanisms, the human brain is constantly undergoing plastic changes.
Plasticity can be studied with phenomena such as peripheral deafferentation and motor …

Playing a musical instrument demands extensive procedural and motor learning that results
in plastic reorganization of the human brain. These plastic changes seem to include the …