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SUBMITTER: Engel A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6869671 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Engel Annerose A Hijmans Brenda S BS Cerliani Leonardo L Bangert Marc M Nanetti Luca L Keller Peter E PE Keysers Christian C
Human brain mapping 20130731 5
Humans vary substantially in their ability to learn new motor skills. Here, we examined inter-individual differences in learning to play the piano, with the goal of identifying relations to structural properties of white matter fiber tracts relevant to audio-motor learning. Non-musicians (n = 18) learned to perform three short melodies on a piano keyboard in a pure audio-motor training condition (vision of their own fingers was occluded). Initial learning times ranged from 17 to 120 min (mean ± ...[more]