Teaching an adult brain new tricks: a critical review of evidence for training-dependent structural plasticity in humans

C Thomas, CI Baker - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
A growing number of structural neuroimaging studies have reported significant changes in
gray matter density or volume and white matter microstructure in the adult human brain …

Repeated structural imaging reveals nonlinear progression of experience-dependent volume changes in human motor cortex

E Wenger, S Kühn, J Verrel, J Mårtensson… - Cerebral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Evidence for experience-dependent structural brain change in adult humans is
accumulating. However, its time course is not well understood, as intervention studies …

Structural brain plasticity in adult learning and development

M Lövdén, E Wenger, J Mårtensson… - Neuroscience & …, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent research using magnetic resonance imaging has documented changes in the adult
human brain's grey matter structure induced by alterations in experiential demands. We …

Advanced MRI techniques to improve our understanding of experience-induced neuroplasticity

CL Tardif, CJ Gauthier, CJ Steele, PL Bazin, A Schäfer… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, numerous human MRI studies of neuroplasticity have shown
compelling evidence for extensive and rapid experience-induced brain plasticity in vivo. To …

Human structural plasticity at record speed

H Johansen-Berg, CS Baptista, AG Thomas - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
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Towards a stronger science of human plasticity

U Lindenberger, E Wenger, M Lövdén - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
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Learning-related gray and white matter changes in humans: an update

M Taubert, A Villringer, P Ragert - The Neuroscientist, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
In contrast to a long-held view that structural brain plasticity is restricted to critical periods
during ontogenesis, it is now well established that the adult human brain preserves its …

Training-induced structural changes in the adult human brain

B Draganski, A May - Behavioural brain research, 2008 - Elsevier
Structural and functional brain reorganisation can occur beyond the developmental
maturation period and this was recently recognised as an intrinsic property of the human …

The effects of memory training on behavioral and microstructural plasticity in young and older adults

AMG de Lange, ACS Bråthen, DA Rohani… - Human brain …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Age differences in human brain plasticity are assumed, but have not been systematically
investigated. In this longitudinal study, we investigated changes in white matter (WM) …

Short-term learning induces white matter plasticity in the fornix

S Hofstetter, I Tavor, ST Moryosef… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has greatly extended the exploration of neuroplasticity in
behaving animals and humans. Imaging studies recently uncovered structural changes that …