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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Motor Control

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  • Skill acquisition involves neural representation changes.
  • Large-scale neural pattern changes during learning are understudied.
  • Motor learning is a key area to investigate neural plasticity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if global connectivity patterns become more reliable after motor learning.
  • To explore the role of multivariate pattern of functional connectivity (MVPC) in motor skill acquisition.
  • To determine if changes in connectivity stability correlate with behavioral improvements.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to scan participants.
  • Participants underwent a five-day finger-tapping motor training task.
  • Multivariate pattern of functional connectivity (MVPC) analysis was applied before and after training.

Main Results:

  • Motor learning significantly increased whole-brain MVPC stability in the primary motor cortex (M1) for the trained sequence.
  • No significant changes in MVPC stability were observed for an untrained sequence.
  • Increased MVPC stability positively correlated with improvements in behavioral task performance.

Conclusions:

  • Motor skill acquisition is associated with enhanced stability of large-scale neural connectivity patterns.
  • Increased connectivity pattern stability in M1 supports motor skill acquisition.
  • MVPC analysis is a valuable tool for studying neural network reorganization during learning.