SynthesisHuman brain mapping2016
Cognitive Expertise: An ALE Meta-Analysis.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- What Is Targeted When We Train Working Memory? Evidence From a Meta-Analysis of the Neural Correlates of Working Memory Training Using Activation Likelihood Estimation.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Psychophysiological correlates of science communicators.PloS one · 2025Article
- Whole-brain resting-state connectivity underlying impaired inhibitory control during early versus longer-term abstinence in cocaine addiction.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Article
- Resting-state brain connectivity correlates of musical sophistication.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- The effect of masks on cognitive performance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Functional Connectivity Signatures Underlying Simultaneous Language Translation in Interpreters and Non-Interpreters of Mandarin and English: An fNIRS Study.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Visual experience modulates whole-brain connectivity dynamics: A resting-state fMRI study using the model of radiologists.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- AT-NeuroEAE: A Joint Extraction Model of Events With Attributes for Research Sharing-Oriented Neuroimaging Provenance Construction.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- The impact of task difficulty on the lateralization of processing in the human auditory cortex.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- Role-Specific Brain Activations in Leaders and Followers During Joint Action.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Beyond Domain-Specific Expertise: Neural Signatures of Face and Spatial Working Memory in Baduk (Go Game) Experts.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Structural Pathways Supporting Swift Acquisition of New Visuomotor Skills.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2017Article
- Increased cerebellar gray matter volume in head chefs.PloS one · 2017Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Expert performance constitutes the endpoint of skill acquisition and is accompanied by widespread neuroplastic changes. To reveal common mechanisms of reorganization associated with long-term expertise in a cognitive domain (mental calculation, chess, language, memory, music without motor involvement), we used activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis and compared brain activation of experts to nonexperts. Twenty-six studies matched inclusion criteria, most of which reported an increase and not a decrease of activation foci in experts. Increased activation occurred in the left rolandic operculum (OP 4) and left primary auditory cortex and in bilateral premotor cortex in studies that used auditory stimulation. In studies with visual stimulation, experts showed enhanced activation in the right inferior parietal cortex (area PGp) and the right lingual gyrus. Experts' brain activation patterns seem to be characterized by enhanced or additional activity in domain-specific primary, association, and motor structures, confirming that learning is localized and very specialized.
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