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Long-Term Experience of Chinese Calligraphic Handwriting Is Associated with Better Executive Functions and Stronger Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Related Brain Regions.
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- Self-Reported Beneficial Effects of Chinese Calligraphy Handwriting Training for Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment: An Exploratory Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The effect of action observation on aesthetic preference of Chinese calligraphy: An fMRI study.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- The Impact of Motor Imageries on Aesthetic Judgment of Chinese Calligraphy: An fMRI Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Long-term Chinese calligraphic handwriting reshapes the posterior cingulate cortex: A VBM study.PloS one · 2019Article
- Long-term Chinese calligraphic handwriting training has a positive effect on brain network efficiency.PloS one · 2019Article
- Chinese calligraphy handwriting (CCH): a case of rehabilitative awakening of a coma patient after stroke.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2018Article
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Abstract
Chinese calligraphic handwriting (CCH) is a traditional art form that requires high levels of concentration and motor control. Previous research has linked short-term training in CCH to improvements in attention and memory. Little is known about the potential impacts of long-term CCH practice on a broader array of executive functions and their potential neural substrates. In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 36 practitioners with at least 5 years of CCH experience and 50 control subjects with no more than one month of CCH practice and investigated their differences in the three components of executive functions (i.e., shifting, updating, and inhibition). Valid resting-state fMRI data were collected from 31 CCH and 40 control participants. Compared with the controls, CCH individuals showed better updating (as measured by the Corsi Block Test) and inhibition (as measured by the Stroop Word-Color Test), but the two groups did not differ in shifting (as measured by a cue-target task). The CCH group showed stronger resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) than the control group in brain areas involved in updating and inhibition. These results suggested that long-term CCH training may be associated with improvements in specific aspects of executive functions and strengthened neural networks in related brain regions.
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