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This study examines the behavioral and neural mechanisms by which somatosensory training affects the human motor system. We have developed a technique, which combines psychophysical and neuroimaging procedures to examine plasticity in the resting-brain following perceptual learning in a somatosensory-discrimination task. We show that effects of perceptual learning are not local to sensory areas of...