Table 2.

Human Brain Imaging Studies on Effects of Learning on Structure of White Matter

Skill or Learning Activity	White Matter Tract	Reference
Musical performance	Corpus callosum, corticospinal tract, frontoparietal association  tracts, right posterior limb of internal capsule	Schmithorst and Wilke (2002) Bengtsson and others (2005) Imfeld and others (2009) Han and others (2009)
Speech	Broca’s area, left insula/prefrontal, parieto-occipital sulcus,  corpus callosum (nonsignificant trend), left and right inferior  parietal	Golestani and others (2002) Flöel and others (2009) Golestani and Pallier (2007)
Visual/spatial memory  and reaction time	Right optic radiatin, posterior thalamus, medial precuneus, left  superior temporal sulcus, left parietal operculum, left and  right superior temporal, corpus callosum, left longitudinal  fascicle	Tuch and others (2005) Begré and others (2007)
Games/sports
Golf	Corticospinal tract and parietal operculum	Jäncke and others (2009)
Juggling	Parieto-occipital sulcus	Scholz and others (2009)
Go (“Baduk”)	Frontal, cinculum, and striato-thalamic, dorsolateral premotor,  parietal	Lee and others (2010)
Reading	Splenium of corpus callosum	Carreiras and others (2009)