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Brain Gray Matter Volume Is Modulated by Visual Input and Overall Learning Success but Not by Time Spent on Learning a Complex Balancing Task
To better understand the process of neuroplasticity, this study assesses brain changes observed by voxel-based morphometry (VBM) in response to two different learning conditions. Twenty-two young, healthy subjects learned slacklining, a complex balancing task, with either their eyes open (EO, n = 11...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352186/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30577582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8010009 |
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author | Dordevic, Milos Taubert, Marco Müller, Patrick Kaufmann, Jörn Hökelmann, Anita Müller, Notger G. |
author_facet | Dordevic, Milos Taubert, Marco Müller, Patrick Kaufmann, Jörn Hökelmann, Anita Müller, Notger G. |
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description | To better understand the process of neuroplasticity, this study assesses brain changes observed by voxel-based morphometry (VBM) in response to two different learning conditions. Twenty-two young, healthy subjects learned slacklining, a complex balancing task, with either their eyes open (EO, n = 11) or their eyes closed (EC, n = 11). The learning took place three times per week for four weeks, with learning periods of 1 hour, providing a total of 12 hours of learning. The scanning and testing protocols were applied at three time-points: (1) immediately before learning (baseline), (2) immediately afterwards (post-test), and (3) two months afterwards (follow-up). The EO group performed better on the task-specific test. Significant group*time interaction effects were found in sensory-motor areas at the post-test, with increases in the EO group only. The results suggest that VBM-observed brain changes in response to learning a complex balancing task vary depending on the learning success and the availability of visual input, and not solely on the amount of time spent on learning. These findings should be taken into account by future studies using similar methodologies. |
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spelling | pubmed-63521862019-02-01 Brain Gray Matter Volume Is Modulated by Visual Input and Overall Learning Success but Not by Time Spent on Learning a Complex Balancing Task Dordevic, Milos Taubert, Marco Müller, Patrick Kaufmann, Jörn Hökelmann, Anita Müller, Notger G. J Clin Med Article To better understand the process of neuroplasticity, this study assesses brain changes observed by voxel-based morphometry (VBM) in response to two different learning conditions. Twenty-two young, healthy subjects learned slacklining, a complex balancing task, with either their eyes open (EO, n = 11) or their eyes closed (EC, n = 11). The learning took place three times per week for four weeks, with learning periods of 1 hour, providing a total of 12 hours of learning. The scanning and testing protocols were applied at three time-points: (1) immediately before learning (baseline), (2) immediately afterwards (post-test), and (3) two months afterwards (follow-up). The EO group performed better on the task-specific test. Significant group*time interaction effects were found in sensory-motor areas at the post-test, with increases in the EO group only. The results suggest that VBM-observed brain changes in response to learning a complex balancing task vary depending on the learning success and the availability of visual input, and not solely on the amount of time spent on learning. These findings should be taken into account by future studies using similar methodologies. MDPI 2018-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6352186/ /pubmed/30577582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8010009 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Dordevic, Milos Taubert, Marco Müller, Patrick Kaufmann, Jörn Hökelmann, Anita Müller, Notger G. Brain Gray Matter Volume Is Modulated by Visual Input and Overall Learning Success but Not by Time Spent on Learning a Complex Balancing Task |
title | Brain Gray Matter Volume Is Modulated by Visual Input and Overall Learning Success but Not by Time Spent on Learning a Complex Balancing Task |
title_full | Brain Gray Matter Volume Is Modulated by Visual Input and Overall Learning Success but Not by Time Spent on Learning a Complex Balancing Task |
title_fullStr | Brain Gray Matter Volume Is Modulated by Visual Input and Overall Learning Success but Not by Time Spent on Learning a Complex Balancing Task |
title_full_unstemmed | Brain Gray Matter Volume Is Modulated by Visual Input and Overall Learning Success but Not by Time Spent on Learning a Complex Balancing Task |
title_short | Brain Gray Matter Volume Is Modulated by Visual Input and Overall Learning Success but Not by Time Spent on Learning a Complex Balancing Task |
title_sort | brain gray matter volume is modulated by visual input and overall learning success but not by time spent on learning a complex balancing task |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352186/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30577582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm8010009 |
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