Effects of tDCS on motor learning and memory formation: a consensus and critical position paper

ER Buch, E Santarnecchi, A Antal, J Born… - Clinical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Motor skills are required for activities of daily living. Transcranial direct current stimulation
(tDCS) applied in association with motor skill learning has been investigated as a tool for …

Predictions not commands: active inference in the motor system

RA Adams, S Shipp, KJ Friston - Brain Structure and Function, 2013 - Springer
The descending projections from motor cortex share many features with top-down or
backward connections in visual cortex; for example, corticospinal projections originate in …

[HTML][HTML] Vagus nerve stimulation drives selective circuit modulation through cholinergic reinforcement

S Bowles, J Hickman, X Peng, WR Williamson… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a neuromodulation therapy for a broad and expanding set
of neurologic conditions. However, the mechanism through which VNS influences central …

Motor skills and exercise capacity are associated with objective measures of cognitive functions and academic performance in preadolescent children

SS Geertsen, R Thomas, MN Larsen, IM Dahn… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Objective To investigate associations between motor skills, exercise capacity and cognitive
functions, and evaluate how they correlate to academic performance in mathematics and …

Current issues related to motor sequence learning in humans

J Doyon, E Gabitov, S Vahdat, O Lungu… - Current opinion in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Behavioral determinants and neural correlates of motor sequence
learning.•Advances in methodological approaches and neuroimaging data analyses.•Motor …

Sleep-dependent reactivation of ensembles in motor cortex promotes skill consolidation

DS Ramanathan, T Gulati, K Ganguly - PLoS biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Despite many prior studies demonstrating offline behavioral gains in motor skills after sleep,
the underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. To investigate the …

Integration and segregation of large-scale brain networks during short-term task automatization

H Mohr, U Wolfensteller, RF Betzel, B Mišić… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The human brain is organized into large-scale functional networks that can flexibly
reconfigure their connectivity patterns, supporting both rapid adaptive control and long-term …

Translating birdsong: songbirds as a model for basic and applied medical research

MS Brainard, AJ Doupe - Annual review of neuroscience, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Songbirds, long of interest to basic neuroscience, have great potential as a model system for
translational neuroscience. Songbirds learn their complex vocal behavior in a manner that …

Electrical fingerprint of the amygdala guides neurofeedback training for stress resilience

JN Keynan, A Cohen, G Jackont, N Green… - Nature human …, 2019 - nature.com
Real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) has revived the translational
perspective of neurofeedback (NF). Particularly for stress management, targeting deeply …

The impacts of video games on cognition (and how the government can guide the industry)

CS Green, AR Seitz - … Insights from the Behavioral and Brain …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Video game play has become a pervasive part of American culture. The dramatic increase in
the popularity of video games has resulted in significant interest in the effects that video …