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

Figure 4. Brain activation in the visual setting. Slice overlays depicting some of the
subcortical and cortical activations found in the visual setting compared to the follow.
Color scale indicates T values of activation thresholded at p<.005 ranging from 0 to 7.
Activations are overlaid on one of the subjects’ skull-stripped normalized structural
MRI. Top panel shows activations in early stage and bottom panel shows activations
in late stage. The slices are selected to represent activations in the right anterior
cerebellum (z=-14 mm), ventral striatum (z= -6 mm) and dorsal putamen(z=8 mm) in
the top row and  Inferior Parietal (z= 42), dorsal premotor cortex (z=42), Pre-

SMA(z=48) and Superior Parietal cortex(z=56) in the bottom row.

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