김성신 연구실

Human motor skill learning is a complicated process of generating a novel movement pattern to achieve a task goal guided by evaluative feedback such as rewards. The Basal Ganglia (BG) plays a central role in reward-based motor skill learning.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is considered to be a promising tool to induce reliable functional changes of human brains. rTMS could enhance associative memory function by targeted stimulation of hippocampus.

Computationally intensive analysis on high-dimensional fMRI data using connectivity analysis and multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) to understand large-scale network interaction and spatial activity patterns.

Motor learning tasks categorized into motor adaptation and motor skill learning. Multi-rate memory models used to understand human behaviors and underlying neural mechanisms in motor adaptation and skill learning.