fMRI Investigation of Cortical and Subcortical Networks in the Learning of Abstract and Effector-Specific Representations of Motor Sequences

fMRI Investigation of Cortical and Subcortical Networks in the Learning of
Abstract and Effector-Specific Representations of Motor Sequences

Raju S. Bapi¹, K. P. Miyapuram¹, F. X. Graydon², K. Doya^3,4

¹ Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad,
Hyderabad 500 046, India

² Brain Imaging Research Division, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences,
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.

³ Department of Computational Neurobiology, Computational Neuroscience
Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research International, Kyoto, Japan.

⁴ Initial Research Project, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa,
Japan.

Abbreviated Title: Sequence Representations

Number of Figures: 7

Number of Tables: 4

Number of Words in Abstract: 247

Corresponding Author:

Dr. Raju S. Bapi

Dept of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad,

Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500 046, India

Telephone Number: +91 40 23134014 (Work) / +91 40 24013032 (Home)

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by grants from Japan Science and Technology Corporation
under the ERATO and CREST schemes. We thank Richard Henson, Okihide
Hikosaka, Hiroshi Imamizu, Mitsuo Kawato, and Hiroyuki Nakahara for helpful
comments and Alex Harner for the experimental software. We thank anonymous
reviewers for their suggestions for improving the manuscript. We thank Joe Gati, for
the help in running the experiments and V. S. Chandrasekhar Pammi and Ahmed, UH
for help with analysis.

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