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Studies in this thesis sought to develop and investigate a novel motor training task to be coupled with cervical spine manipulation to investigate its effects on individual’s ability to process new task information. The studies revealed significant changes in neural activity specific to the cerebellum and sensorimotor integration following a complex motor training task as compared to a simple repetitive task, suggesting that those specific regions are involved in processing of more complex motor skill learning tasks. This novel task was then coupled with manipulation which revealed significant activation increases in cortical and decreases in subcortical brain regions following manipulation. Regions specific to sensorimotor integration (SMI) showed increased activation in both the manipulation and passive head movement control groups, corroborating with the results from the first study. 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The studies revealed significant changes in neural activity specific to the cerebellum and sensorimotor integration following a complex motor training task as compared to a simple repetitive task, suggesting that those specific regions are involved in processing of more complex motor skill learning tasks. This novel task was then coupled with manipulation which revealed significant activation increases in cortical and decreases in subcortical brain regions following manipulation. Regions specific to sensorimotor integration (SMI) showed increased activation in both the manipulation and passive head movement control groups, corroborating with the results from the first study. 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