Novel vibrotactile discrimination task for investigating the neural correlates of short-term learning with fMRI

Innovative perceptual-motor learning paradigms applicable for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) offer much potential for elucidating the specific cortical mechanisms that underpin short-term learning. In this study, a novel, fMRI-compatible, vibrotactile discrimination task, adapted from a tactile version of the Morse-code, was introduced. Uniquely, this task featured distinct components of training and testing, such that cortical …