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Nature Neuroscience 10, 148 - 149 (2007)
Published online: 21 January 2007 | doi:10.1038/nn1836
Inducing motor skill improvements with a declarative task
Rachel M Brown1 & Edwin M Robertson1
During sequence learning, individuals show motor-skill acquisition and an ability to verbally describe items within the sequence. We disrupted this latter, declarative component by having participants learn a word list immediately after sequence learning. This induced off-line skill improvements. We conclude that off-line memory processing relies not only on the engagement of neuroplastic mechanisms but also on the disengagement of an interaction between declarative and procedural memory systems.
- Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Kirstein Building KS 446, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Correspondence to: Edwin M Robertson1 e-mail: emrobert@bidmc.harvard.edu
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