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Christopher J Steele

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Christopher James Steele

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Early musical training and white-matter plasticity in the corpus callosum: evidence for a sensitive period

CJ Steele, JA Bailey, RJ Zatorre… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Training during a sensitive period in development may have greater effects on brain structure
and behavior than training later in life. Musicians are an excellent model for investigating …

Parallel contributions of cerebellar, striatal and M1 mechanisms to motor sequence learning

VB Penhune, CJ Steele - Behavioural brain research, 2012 - Elsevier
When learning a new motor sequence, we must execute the correct order of movements
while simultaneously optimizing sensorimotor parameters such as trajectory, timing, velocity …

[HTML][HTML] BIDS apps: Improving ease of use, accessibility, and reproducibility of neuroimaging data analysis methods

…, PR Raamana, D Raffelt, CJ Steele… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The rate of progress in human neurosciences is limited by the inability to easily apply a wide
range of analysis methods to the plethora of different datasets acquired in labs around the …

Specific increases within global decreases: a functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of five days of motor sequence learning

CJ Steele, VB Penhune - Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Our capacity to learn movement sequences is fundamental to our ability to interact with the
environment. Although different brain networks have been linked with different stages of …

Lesion location matters: the relationships between white matter hyperintensities on cognition in the healthy elderly

…, J Kynast, K Arelin, CJ Steele… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are associated with cognitive decline. We aimed to
identify the spatial specificity of WMH impact on cognition in non-demented, healthy elderly. We …

[HTML][HTML] An ocean-colour time series for use in climate studies: the experience of the ocean-colour climate change initiative (OC-CCI)

…, P Regner, S Roy, CJ Steele, F Steinmetz, J Swinton… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ocean colour is recognised as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) by the Global Climate
Observing System (GCOS); and spectrally-resolved water-leaving radiances (or remote-…

[HTML][HTML] In-vivo dynamics of the human hippocampus across the menstrual cycle

C Barth, CJ Steele, K Mueller, VP Rekkas, K Arélin… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Sex hormones fluctuate during the menstrual cycle. Evidence from animal studies suggests
similar subtle fluctuations in hippocampal structure, predominantly linked to estrogen. …

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over primary motor cortex leg area promotes dynamic balance task performance

E Kaminski, CJ Steele, M Hoff, C Gundlach… - Clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of facilitatory anodal tDCS (a-tDCS)
applied over the leg area of the primary motor cortex on learning a complex whole-body …

Impairment of emotional facial expression and prosody discrimination due to ischemic cerebellar lesions

…, MU Trenner, B Sehm, CJ Steele, J Berneiser… - The Cerebellum, 2014 - Springer
A growing literature points to a specific role of the cerebellum in affect processing. However,
understanding of affect processing disturbances following discrete cerebellar lesions is …

Improving safety of MRI in patients with deep brain stimulation devices

…, M Ranjan, A Loh, AJ Martin, W Kucharczyk, CJ Steele… - Radiology, 2020 - pubs.rsna.org
MRI is a valuable clinical and research tool for patients undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS).
However, risks associated with imaging DBS devices have led to stringent regulations, …