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Abstract | ||
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Recent findings with both animals and humans suggest that decreases in microscopic movements of water in the hippocampus reflect short-term neuroplasticity resulting from learning. Here we examine whether such neuroplastic structural changes concurrently alter the functional connectivity between hippocampus and other regions involved in learning. We collected both diffusion-weighted images and fMRI data before and after humans performed a 45min spatial route-learning task. Relative to a control group with equal practice time, there was decreased diffusivity in the posterior-dorsal dentate gyrus of the left hippocampus in the route-learning group accompanied by increased synchronization of fMRI-measured BOLD signal between this region and cortical areas, and by changes in behavioral performance. These concurrent changes characterize the multidimensionality of neuroplasticity as it enables human spatial learning. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.015 | NeuroImage |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Spatial learning,Neuroplasticity,Connectivity,Hippocampus,Precuneus,fMRI,DTI | Developmental psychology,Spatial learning,Neuroscience,Precuneus,Psychology,Cognitive psychology,Human learning,Left hippocampus,Neuroplasticity,Dentate gyrus,Hippocampus | Journal |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
125 | 1053-8119 | 3 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.44 | 11 | 2 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy A. Keller | 1 | 82 | 17.43 |
| Marcel Just | 2 | 476 | 75.67 |