Kader Boulanouar

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the changes induced by the performance of a complex sequential motor task in the cortical areas of six akinetic patients with Parkinson's disease and six normal subjects.

TL;DR: The overall results of this study demonstrated that language f MRI could not be used to make critical surgical decisions in the absence of direct brain mapping, and other acquisition protocols are required for evaluation of the potential role of language fMRI in the accurate detection of essential cortical language areas.

TL;DR: The analysis of the decreases and increases in the BOLD signal across the STD, DEV, and rest conditions suggests that the left posterior superior temporal gyrus is implicated in the preattentive change detection of acoustic changes in speech as well as nonspeech stimuli, whereas the left supramarginal g Cyrus is more specifically engaged in the detection of changes in phonological units.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that passive training with repeated proprioceptive stimulation induces a reorganization of sensorimotor representation in healthy subjects, which might benefit patients undergoing rehabilitative procedures.

TL;DR: The authors suggest that, beyond the habituation process, a learning process occurred that had nothing to do with procedural learning, because the tasks were well learned or passive, and a long-term memory representation of the sensorimotor task can become integrated into the motor system along the sessions.