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Mongeon, David; Blanchet, Pierre; Messier, Julie – Brain and Cognition, 2013
The capacity to learn new visuomotor associations is fundamental to adaptive motor behavior. Evidence suggests visuomotor learning deficits in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the exact nature of these deficits and the ability of dopamine medication to improve them are under-explored. Previous studies suggested that learning driven by large and…
Descriptors: Diseases, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes, Patients
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Davis, Nicole; Cannistraci, Christopher J.; Rogers, Baxter P.; Gatenby, J. Christopher; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Anderson, Adam W.; Gore, John C. – Neuropsychologia, 2009
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore the patterns of brain activation associated with different levels of performance in exact and approximate calculation tasks in well-defined cohorts of children with mathematical calculation difficulties (MD) and typically developing controls. Both groups of children activated the same…
Descriptors: Computation, Arithmetic, Problem Solving, At Risk Persons
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Gamino, Jacquelyn F.; Chapman, Sandra B.; Cook, Lori G. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Little is known about strategic learning ability in preteens and adolescents with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Strategic learning is the ability to combine and synthesize details to form abstracted gist-based meanings, a higher-order cognitive skill associated with frontal lobe functions and higher classroom performance. Summarization tasks were…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Neurological Impairments, Brain, Thinking Skills