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This study addresses the controversy over how motor maps are organized during action simulation by examining whether action simulation states, that is, motor imagery and action observation, run on either effector-specific and/or action-specific motor maps. Subjects had to observe or imagine three types of movements effected by the right hand or the right foot with different action goals. The functional magnetic resonance imaging results showed an action-specific organization within premotor and posterior parietal areas of both hemispheres during action simulation, especially during action observation. There were also less pronounced effector-specific activation sites during both simulation processes. It is concluded that the premotor and parietal areas contain multiple motor maps rather than a single, continuous map of the body. The forms of simulation (observation, imagery), the task contexts (movements related to an object, with usual/unusual effector), and the underlying reason for performing the simulation (rate your subjective success afterwards) lead to the specific use of different representational motor maps within both regions. In our experimental setting, action-specific maps are dominant especially, during action observation, whereas effector-specific maps are recruited to only a lesser degree.
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The simulation concept suggested by Jeannerod (Neuroimage 14:S103-S109, 2001) defines the S-states of action observation and mental simulation of action as action-related mental states lacking overt execution. Within this framework, similarities and neural overlap between S-states and overt execution are interpreted as providing the common basis for the motor representations implemented within the motor system. The present brain imaging study compared activation overlap and differential activation during mental simulation (motor imagery) with that while observing gymnastic movements. The fMRI conjunction analysis revealed overlapping activation for both S-states in primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, and the supplementary motor area as well as in the intraparietal sulcus, cerebellar hemispheres, and parts of the basal ganglia. A direct contrast between the motor imagery and observation conditions revealed stronger activation for imagery in the posterior insula and the anterior cingulate gyrus. The hippocampus, the superior parietal lobe, and the cerebellar areas were differentially activated in the observation condition. In general, these data corroborate the concept of action-related S-states because of the high overlap in core motor as well as in motor-related areas. We argue that differential activity between S-states relates to task-specific and modal information processing.
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- Vaitl (2)
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Sprache
- Englisch (2)
Thema
- Motor Activity/*physiology
- action mapping (1)
- action observation (1)
- Adult (2)
- Brain Mapping (1)
- *Brain Mapping (1)
- *Cognition (1)
- Dancing (1)
- Electromyography (1)
- Female (1)
- fMRI (1)
- Foot/physiology (1)
- Frontal Lobe/*physiology (1)
- Functional Laterality (1)
- Goals (1)
- Gymnastics/*physiology (1)
- Hand/physiology (1)
- Hemodynamics (1)
- Humans (2)
- *Imagery, Psychotherapy (1)
- Imagination/*physiology (1)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2)
- Male (1)
- Motor Cortex/*physiology (1)
- motor imagery (1)
- motor simulation (1)
- Movement (1)
- Neurons/*physiology (1)
- Neuropsychological Tests (1)
- Parietal Lobe/*physiology (1)
- Photic Stimulation (1)
- Physical Education and Training (1)
- somatotopic mapping (1)
- *Sports (1)
- Students (1)
- Video Recording (1)
- Visual Perception/*physiology (1)