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Mark Hallett

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  1234
Citations -  136876

Mark Hallett is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transcranial magnetic stimulation & Motor cortex. The author has an hindex of 186, co-authored 1170 publications receiving 123741 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Hallett include Government of the United States of America & Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

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Modulation of muscle responses evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation during the acquisition of new fine motor skills

TL;DR: Trans transcranial magnetic stimulation is used to study the role of plastic changes of the human motor system in the acquisition of new fine motor skills and the effect of increased hand use without specific skill learning in subjects who played the piano at will for 2 h each day but who were not taught the five-finger exercise.
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Rapid Plasticity of Human Cortical Movement Representation Induced by Practice

TL;DR: Training rapidly, and transiently, established a change in the cortical network representing the thumb, which encoded kinematic details of the practiced movement, suggesting that this phenomenon may be regarded as a short-term memory for movement and be the first step of skill acquisition.
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Activation of the primary visual cortex by Braille reading in blind subjects.

TL;DR: In blind subjects, cortical areas normally reserved for vision may be activated by other sensory modalities, and positron emission tomography was used to determine whether the visual cortex receives input from the somatosensory system.