How Skill Expertise Shapes the Brain Functional Architecture: An fMRI Study of Visuo-Spatial and Motor Processing in Professional Racing-Car and Naïve Drivers

• Giulio Bernardi,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Clinical Psychology Branch, University of Pisa, AOUP Santa Chiara, Pisa, Italy

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• Emiliano Ricciardi,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, MRI Laboratory, Fondazione Regione Toscana/CNR ‘G.Monasterio’, Pisa, Italy

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• Lorenzo Sani,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Anna Gaglianese,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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• Alessandra Papasogli,

  Affiliation Formula Medicine, Viareggio, Italy

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• Riccardo Ceccarelli,

  Affiliation Formula Medicine, Viareggio, Italy

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• Ferdinando Franzoni,

  Affiliation Sport Medicine Unit, Department of Clinical and Sperimental Medicine, University of Pisa, AOUP Santa Chiara, Pisa, Italy

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• Fabio Galetta,

  Affiliation Sport Medicine Unit, Department of Clinical and Sperimental Medicine, University of Pisa, AOUP Santa Chiara, Pisa, Italy

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• Gino Santoro,

  Affiliation Sport Medicine Unit, Department of Clinical and Sperimental Medicine, University of Pisa, AOUP Santa Chiara, Pisa, Italy

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• Rainer Goebel,

  Affiliation Maastricht Brain Imaging Center, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands

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• Pietro Pietrini

  * E-mail: pietro.pietrini@med.unipi.it

  Affiliations Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Clinical Psychology Branch, University of Pisa, AOUP Santa Chiara, Pisa, Italy

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