Reduced susceptibility to interference in the consolidation of motor memory before adolescence.

Are children superior to adults in consolidating procedural memory? This notion has been tied to "critical," early life periods of increased brain plasticity. Here, using a motor sequence learning task, we show, in experiment 1, that a) the rate of learning during a training session, b) th...

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Main Authors: Shoshi Dorfberger, Esther Adi-Japha, Avi Karni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-02-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000240