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Tomasino B, Bernardis P, Maieron M, D'Agostini S, Skrap M. Parietal/premotor lesions effects on visuomotor cognition in neuro-oncology patients: A multimodal study. Neuropsychologia 2023; 186:108599. [PMID: 37245637 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Revised: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND Assessing prior to surgery the functionality of brain areas exposed near the tumor requires a multimodal approach that combines the use of neuropsychological testing and fMRI tasks. Paradigms based on motor imagery, which corresponds to the ability to mentally evoke a movement, in the absence of actual action execution, can be used to test sensorimotor areas and the functionality of mental motor representations. METHODS The most commonly used paradigm is the Limb Laterality Recognition Task (LLRT), requiring judgments about whether a limb belongs to the left or right side of the body. The group studied included 38 patients with high-grade (N = 21), low-grade (N = 11) gliomas and meningiomas (N = 6) in areas anterior (N = 21) and posterior (N = 17) to the central sulcus. Patients before surgery underwent neuropsychological assessment and fMRI. They performed the LLRT as an fMRI task. Accuracy, and neuroimaging data were collected and combined in a multimodal study. Structural MRI data analyses were performed by subtracting the overlap of volumes of interest (VOIs) plotted on lesions from the impaired patient group vs the overlap of VOIs from the spared group. The fMRI analyses were performed comparing the impaired patients and spared group. RESULTS In general, patients were within normal limits on many neuropsychological screening tests. Compared with the control group, 17/38 patients had significantly different performance. The subtraction between the VOIs overlay of the impaired patients' group vs. the VOIs overlay of the spared group revealed that the areas maximally involved by lesions in the impaired patients' group were the right postcentral gyrus, right inferior parietal lobe, right supramarginal gyrus, right precentral gyrus, paracentral lobule, left postcentral gyrus, right superior parietal lobe, left inferior parietal lobe, and left superior and middle frontal gyrus. Analysis of the fMRI data showed which of these areas contributes to a correct LLRT performance. The task (vs. rest) in the group comparison (spared vs. impaired patients) activated a cluster in the left inferior parietal lobe. CONCLUSION Underlying the altered performance at LLRT in patients with lesions to the parietal and premotor areas of the right and left hemispheres is a difference in activation of the left inferior parietal lobe. This region is involved in visuomotor processes and those related to motor attention, movement selection, and motor planning.
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- Barbara Tomasino
- Scientific Institute IRCCS "Eugenio Medea", Polo FVG, Pasian di Prato (UD), Italy.
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Fisica Medica, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale, Presidio Ospedaliero Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy
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- SOC Neuroradiologia, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale, Presidio Ospedaliero Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy
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- Unità Operativa di Neurochirurgia, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria del Friuli Centrale, Udine, Italy
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Berger CC, Coppi S, Ehrsson HH. Synchronous motor imagery and visual feedback of finger movement elicit the moving rubber hand illusion, at least in illusion-susceptible individuals. Exp Brain Res 2023; 241:1021-1039. [PMID: 36928694 PMCID: PMC10081980 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-023-06586-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 02/26/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Recent evidence suggests that imagined auditory and visual sensory stimuli can be integrated with real sensory information from a different sensory modality to change the perception of external events via cross-modal multisensory integration mechanisms. Here, we explored whether imagined voluntary movements can integrate visual and proprioceptive cues to change how we perceive our own limbs in space. Participants viewed a robotic hand wearing a glove repetitively moving its right index finger up and down at a frequency of 1 Hz, while they imagined executing the corresponding movements synchronously or asynchronously (kinesthetic-motor imagery); electromyography (EMG) from the participants' right index flexor muscle confirmed that the participants kept their hand relaxed while imagining the movements. The questionnaire results revealed that the synchronously imagined movements elicited illusory ownership and a sense of agency over the moving robotic hand-the moving rubber hand illusion-compared with asynchronously imagined movements; individuals who affirmed experiencing the illusion with real synchronous movement also did so with synchronous imagined movements. The results from a proprioceptive drift task further demonstrated a shift in the perceived location of the participants' real hand toward the robotic hand in the synchronous versus the asynchronous motor imagery condition. These results suggest that kinesthetic motor imagery can be used to replace veridical congruent somatosensory feedback from a moving finger in the moving rubber hand illusion to trigger illusory body ownership and agency, but only if the temporal congruence rule of the illusion is obeyed. This observation extends previous studies on the integration of mental imagery and sensory perception to the case of multisensory bodily awareness, which has potentially important implications for research into embodiment of brain-computer interface controlled robotic prostheses and computer-generated limbs in virtual reality.
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- Christopher C Berger
- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering/Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Bayram M, Palluel-Germain R, Lebon F, Durand E, Harquel S, Perrone-Bertolotti M. Motor imagery training to improve language processing: What are the arguments? Front Hum Neurosci 2023; 17:982849. [PMID: 36816506 PMCID: PMC9929469 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.982849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Studies showed that motor expertise was found to induce improvement in language processing. Grounded and situated approaches attributed this effect to an underlying automatic simulation of the motor experience elicited by action words, similar to motor imagery (MI), and suggest shared representations of action conceptualization. Interestingly, recent results also suggest that the mental simulation of action by MI training induces motor-system modifications and improves motor performance. Consequently, we hypothesize that, since MI training can induce motor-system modifications, it could be used to reinforce the functional connections between motor and language system, and could thus lead to improved language performance. Here, we explore these potential interactions by reviewing recent fundamental and clinical literature in the action-language and MI domains. We suggested that exploiting the link between action language and MI could open new avenues for complementary language improvement programs. We summarize the current literature to evaluate the rationale behind this novel training and to explore the mechanisms underlying MI and its impact on language performance.
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- Mariam Bayram
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire INSERM U1093 Cognition, Action, et Plasticité Sensorimotrice, Université de Bourgogne, Faculté des Sciences du Sport (UFR STAPS), Dijon, France,Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
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- Département d’Orthophonie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada
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- Defitech Chair of Clinical Neuroengineering, Center for Neuroprosthetics (CNP) and Brain Mind Institute (BMI), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LPNC, 38000 Grenoble, France,Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France,*Correspondence: Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti,
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Hong J, Shamsi F, Najafizadeh L. A Deep Learning Framework Based on Dynamic Channel Selection for Early Classification of Left and Right Hand Motor Imagery Tasks. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022; 2022:3550-3553. [PMID: 36085892 DOI: 10.1109/embc48229.2022.9871446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Ideal brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) need to be efficient and accurate, demanding for classifiers that can work across subjects while providing high classification accu-racy results from recordings with short duration. To address this problem, we present a new deep learning framework for discriminating motor imagery (MI) tasks from electroen-cephalography (EEG) signals. The framework consists of a 1D convolutional neural network-long short-term memory (CNN-LSTM), combined with a dynamic channel selection approach based on Davies-Bouldin index (DBI). Using data from BCI competition IV-IIa data, the proposed framework reports an average classification accuracy of 70.17% and 76.18% when using only 800 ms and 1500 ms of the EEG data after the task onset, respectively. The proposed framework dynamically balances individual differences, achieves comparable or better performance compared to existing work, while using short duration of EEG.
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Barhoun P, Fuelscher I, Do M, He JL, Cerins A, Bekkali S, Youssef GJ, Corp D, Major BP, Meaney D, Enticott PG, Hyde C. The role of the primary motor cortex in motor imagery: A theta burst stimulation study. Psychophysiology 2022; 59:e14077. [PMID: 35503930 PMCID: PMC9540768 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Revised: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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While mentally simulated actions activate similar neural structures to overt movement, the role of the primary motor cortex (PMC) in motor imagery remains disputed. The aim of the study was to use continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) to modulate corticospinal activity to investigate the putative role of the PMC in implicit motor imagery in young adults with typical and atypical motor ability. A randomized, double blind, sham‐controlled, crossover, offline cTBS protocol was applied to 35 young adults. During three separate sessions, adults with typical and low motor ability (developmental coordination disorder [DCD]), received active cTBS to the PMC and supplementary motor area (SMA), and sham stimulation to either the PMC or SMA. Following stimulation, participants completed measures of motor imagery (i.e., hand rotation task) and visual imagery (i.e., letter number rotation task). Although active cTBS significantly reduced corticospinal excitability in adults with typical motor ability, neither task performance was altered following active cTBS to the PMC or SMA, compared to performance after sham cTBS. These results did not differ across motor status (i.e., typical motor ability and DCD). These findings are not consistent with our hypothesis that the PMC (and SMA) is directly involved in motor imagery. Instead, previous motor cortical activation observed during motor imagery may be an epiphenomenon of other neurophysiological processes and/or activity within brain regions involved in motor imagery. This study highlights the need to consider multi‐session theta burst stimulation application and its neural effects when probing the putative role of motor cortices in motor imagery. A controlled continuous theta burst stimulation protocol was adopted to examine the role of the primary motor cortex in motor imagery. While corticospinal excitability was suppressed in individuals with typical motor ability, no changes in imagery performance were detected after applying active stimulation to the motor regions. This suggests that motor regions may not be causally implicated in motor imagery and/or that multiple stimulation sessions may be required when inducing cognitive‐behavioral changes.
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- Pamela Barhoun
- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.,Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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Hartmann M, Falconer CJ, Kaelin-Lang A, Müri RM, Mast FW. Imagined paralysis reduces motor cortex excitability. Psychophysiology 2022; 59:e14069. [PMID: 35393640 PMCID: PMC9539708 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Mental imagery is a powerful capability that engages similar neurophysiological processes that underlie real sensory and motor experiences. Previous studies show that motor cortical excitability can increase during mental imagery of actions. In this study, we focused on possible inhibitory effects of mental imagery on motor functions. We assessed whether imagined arm paralysis modulates motor cortical excitability in healthy participants, as measured by motor evoked potentials (MEPs) of the hand induced by near-threshold transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the primary motor cortex hand area. We found lower MEP amplitudes during imagined arm paralysis when compared to imagined leg paralysis or baseline stimulation without paralysis imagery. These results show that purely imagined bodily constraints can selectively inhibit basic motor corticospinal functions. The results are discussed in the context of motoric embodiment/disembodiment.
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- Matthias Hartmann
- Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Faculty of Psychology, UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Clinical Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of BioMedical Research, University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Regional Hospital of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland.,Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of BioMedical Research, University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Shibuya S, Unenaka S, Shimada S, Ohki Y. Distinct modulation of mu and beta rhythm desynchronization during observation of embodied fake hand rotation. Neuropsychologia 2021; 159:107952. [PMID: 34252417 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Revised: 06/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is a phenomenon whereby participants recognize a fake hand as their own. Studies have examined the effects of observing fake hand movements after the RHI on brain sensorimotor activity, although results remain controversial. To address these discrepancies, we investigated the effects of observation of fake hand rotation after the RHI on sensorimotor mu (μ: 8-13 Hz) and beta (β: 15-25 Hz) rhythm event-related desynchronization (ERD) using electroencephalography (EEG). Questionnaire results and proprioceptive drift revealed that the RHI occurred in participants when their invisible hand and fake visible hand were stroked synchronously but not during asynchronous stroking. Independent component (IC) clustering from EEG data during movement observation identified three IC clusters, including the right sensorimotor, left sensorimotor, and left occipital cluster. In the right sensorimotor cluster, we observed distinct modulation of μ and β ERD during fake hand rotation. Illusory ownership over the fake hand enhanced μ ERD but inversely attenuated β ERD. Further, the extent of μ ERD correlated with proprioceptive drift, but not with questionnaire ratings, whereas the converse results were obtained for β ERD. No ownership-dependent ERD modulation was detected in the left sensorimotor cluster. Alpha (α: 8-13 Hz) rhythm ERD of the left occipital cluster was smaller in the synchronous condition than in the asynchronous condition, but α ERD was not correlated with questionnaire rating or drift. These findings suggest that observing embodied fake hand rotation induces distinct cortical processing in sensorimotor brain areas.
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- Satoshi Shibuya
- Department of Integrative Physiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, 6-20-2 Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.
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- Department of Sport Education, School of Lifelong Sport, Hokusho University, 23 Bunkyodai, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan
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- Department of Electronics and Bioinformatics, School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, 1-1-1 Higashi-Mita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, 6-20-2 Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
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Iso N, Moriuchi T, Fujiwara K, Matsuo M, Mitsunaga W, Hasegawa T, Iso F, Cho K, Suzuki M, Higashi T. Hemodynamic Signal Changes During Motor Imagery Task Performance Are Associated With the Degree of Motor Task Learning. Front Hum Neurosci 2021; 15:603069. [PMID: 33935666 PMCID: PMC8081959 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.603069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Purpose This study aimed to investigate whether oxygenated hemoglobin (oxy-Hb) generated during a motor imagery (MI) task is associated with the motor learning level of the task. Methods We included 16 right-handed healthy participants who were trained to perform a ball rotation (BR) task. Hemodynamic brain activity was measured using near-infrared spectroscopy to monitor changes in oxy-Hb concentration during the BR MI task. The experimental protocol used a block design, and measurements were performed three times before and after the initial training of the BR task as well as after the final training. The BR count during training was also measured. Furthermore, subjective vividness of MI was evaluated three times after NIRS measurement using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS). Results The results showed that the number of BRs increased significantly with training (P < 0.001). VAS scores also improved with training (P < 0.001). Furthermore, oxy-Hb concentration and the region of interest (ROI) showed a main effect (P = 0.001). An interaction was confirmed (P < 0.001), and it was ascertained that the change in oxy-Hb concentrations due to training was different for each ROI. The most significant predictor of subjective MI vividness was supplementary motor area (SMA) oxy-Hb concentration (coefficient = 0.365). Discussion Hemodynamic brain activity during MI tasks may be correlated with task motor learning levels, since significant changes in oxy-Hb concentrations were observed following initial and final training in the SMA. In particular, hemodynamic brain activity in the SMA was suggested to reflect the MI vividness of participants.
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- Naoki Iso
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Tokyo Kasei University, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Occupational Therapy, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Health Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Health Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Health Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Health Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Health Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Health Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Tokyo Kasei University, Saitama, Japan
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Tokyo Kasei University, Saitama, Japan
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- Department of Health Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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OBJECTIVE This study explored mental rotation (MR) performance in patients with myotonic dystrophy 1 (DM1), an inherited neuromuscular disorder dominated by muscular symptoms, including muscle weakness and myotonia. The aim of the study was twofold: to gain new insights into the neurocognitive mechanisms of MR and to better clarify the cognitive profile of DM1 patients. To address these aims, we used MR tasks involving kinds of stimuli that varied for the extent to which they emphasized motor simulation and activation of body representations (body parts) versus visuospatial imagery (abstract objects). We hypothesized that, if peripheral sensorimotor feedback system plays a pivotal role in modulating MR performance, then DM1 patients would exhibit more difficulties in mentally rotating hand stimuli than abstract objects. METHOD Twenty-four DM1 patients and twenty-four age- and education-matched control subjects were enrolled in the study and were required to perform two computerized MR tasks involving pictures of hands and abstract objects. RESULTS The analysis of accuracy showed that patients had impaired MR performance when the angular disparities between the stimuli were higher. Notably, as compared to controls, patients showed slower responses when the stimuli were hands, whereas no significant differences when stimuli were objects. CONCLUSION The findings are coherent with the embodied cognition view, indicating a tight relation between body- and motor-related processes and MR. They suggest that peripheral, muscular, abnormalities in DM1 lead to alterations in manipulation of motor representations, which in turn affect MR, especially when body parts are to mentally rotate.
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A Comprehensive sLORETA Study on the Contribution of Cortical Somatomotor Regions to Motor Imagery. Brain Sci 2019; 9:brainsci9120372. [PMID: 31847114 PMCID: PMC6955896 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci9120372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Revised: 12/06/2019] [Accepted: 12/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Brain–computer interface (BCI) is a technology used to convert brain signals to control external devices. Researchers have designed and built many interfaces and applications in the last couple of decades. BCI is used for prevention, detection, diagnosis, rehabilitation, and restoration in healthcare. EEG signals are analyzed in this paper to help paralyzed people in rehabilitation. The electroencephalogram (EEG) signals recorded from five healthy subjects are used in this study. The sensor level EEG signals are converted to source signals using the inverse problem solution. Then, the cortical sources are calculated using sLORETA methods at nine regions marked by a neurophysiologist. The features are extracted from cortical sources by using the common spatial pattern (CSP) method and classified by a support vector machine (SVM). Both the sensor and the computed cortical signals corresponding to motor imagery of the hand and foot are used to train the SVM algorithm. Then, the signals outside the training set are used to test the classification performance of the classifier. The 0.1–30 Hz and mu rhythm band-pass filtered activity is also analyzed for the EEG signals. The classification performance and recognition of the imagery improved up to 100% under some conditions for the cortical level. The cortical source signals at the regions contributing to motor commands are investigated and used to improve the classification of motor imagery.
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Beynel L, Appelbaum LG, Luber B, Crowell CA, Hilbig SA, Lim W, Nguyen D, Chrapliwy NA, Davis SW, Cabeza R, Lisanby SH, Deng ZD. Effects of online repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on cognitive processing: A meta-analysis and recommendations for future studies. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2019; 107:47-58. [PMID: 31473301 PMCID: PMC7654714 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2019] [Revised: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 08/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
Online repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), applied while subjects are performing a task, is widely used to disrupt brain regions underlying cognition. However, online rTMS has also induced "paradoxical enhancement". Given the rapid proliferation of this approach, it is crucial to develop a better understanding of how online stimulation influences cognition, and the optimal parameters to achieve desired effects. To accomplish this goal, a quantitative meta-analysis was performed with random-effects models fitted to reaction time (RT) and accuracy data. The final dataset included 126 studies published between 1998 and 2016, with 244 total effects for reaction times, and 202 for accuracy. Meta-analytically, rTMS at 10 Hz and 20 Hz disrupted accuracy for attention, executive, language, memory, motor, and perception domains, while no effects were found with 1 Hz or 5 Hz. Stimulation applied at and 10 and 20 Hz slowed down RTs in attention and perception tasks. No performance enhancement was found. Meta-regression analysis showed that fMRI-guided targeting and short inter-trial intervals are associated with increased disruptive effects with rTMS.
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- Lysianne Beynel
- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit, Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States; Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit, Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States; Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit, Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.
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Debarnot U, Neveu R, Samaha Y, Saruco E, Macintyre T, Guillot A. Acquisition and consolidation of implicit motor learning with physical and mental practice across multiple days of anodal tDCS. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2019; 164:107062. [PMID: 31377178 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2019.107062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Revised: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 07/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Acquisition and consolidation of a new motor skill occurs gradually over long time span. Motor imagery (MI) and brain stimulation have been showed as beneficial approaches that boost motor learning, but little is known about the extent of their combined effects. OBJECTIVE Here, we aimed to investigate, for the first time, whether delivering multiple sessions of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over primary motor cortex during physical and MI practice might improve implicit motor sequence learning in a young population. METHODS Participants practiced a serial reaction time task (SRTT) either physically or through MI, and concomitantly received either an anodal (excitatory) or sham stimulation over the primary motor cortex during three successive days. The effect of anodal tDCS on the general motor skill and sequence specific learning were assessed on both acquisition (within-day) and consolidation (between-day) processes. We further compared the magnitude of motor learning reached after a single and three daily sessions of tDCS. RESULTS The main finding showed that anodal tDCS boosted MI practice, but not physical practice, during the first acquisition session. A second major result showed that compared to sham stimulation, multiple daily session of anodal tDCS, for both types of practice, resulted in greater implicit motor sequence learning rather than a single session of stimulation. CONCLUSIONS The present study is of particular importance in the context of rehabilitation, where we postulate that scheduling mental training when patients are not able to perform physical movement might beneficiate from concomitant and consecutive brain stimulation sessions over M1 to promote functional recovery.
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- Ursula Debarnot
- Inter-University Laboratory of Human Movement Biology-EA 7424, University of Lyon, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69 622 Villeurbanne, France.
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- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Geneva, 1200 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Inter-University Laboratory of Human Movement Biology-EA 7424, University of Lyon, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69 622 Villeurbanne, France
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- Inter-University Laboratory of Human Movement Biology-EA 7424, University of Lyon, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69 622 Villeurbanne, France; Neurologische Universitätsklinik, Bergmannsheil gGmbH, Forschungsgruppe Plastizität, Bürkle-de-la-Camp-Platz 1, 44789 Bochum, Germany
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- Health Research Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX Limerick, Ireland
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- Inter-University Laboratory of Human Movement Biology-EA 7424, University of Lyon, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 69 622 Villeurbanne, France
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Cona G, Scarpazza C. Where is the "where" in the brain? A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on spatial cognition. Hum Brain Mapp 2019; 40:1867-1886. [PMID: 30600568 PMCID: PMC6865398 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2018] [Revised: 11/06/2018] [Accepted: 11/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Spatial representations are processed in the service of several different cognitive functions. The present study capitalizes on the Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) method of meta-analysis to identify: (a) the shared neural activations among spatial functions to reveal the "core" network of spatial processing; (b) the specific neural activations associated with each of these functions. Following PRISMA guidelines, a total of 133 fMRI and PET studies were included in the meta-analysis. The overall analysis showed that the core network of spatial processing comprises regions that are symmetrically distributed on both hemispheres and that include dorsal frontoparietal regions, presupplementary motor area, anterior insula, and frontal operculum. The specific analyses revealed the brain regions that are selectively recruited for each spatial function, such as the right temporoparietal junction for shift of spatial attention, the right parahippocampal gyrus, and the retrosplenial cortex for navigation and spatial long-term memory. The findings are integrated within a systematic review of the neuroimaging literature and a new neurocognitive model of spatial cognition is proposed.
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- Giorgia Cona
- Department of General PsychologyUniversity of PaduaPaduaItaly
- Padova Neuroscience CenterUniversity of PaduaPaduaItaly
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- Department of General PsychologyUniversity of PaduaPaduaItaly
- Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & NeuroscienceKing's College Health Partners, King's College LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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Nobusako S, Ishibashi R, Takamura Y, Oda E, Tanigashira Y, Kouno M, Tominaga T, Ishibashi Y, Okuno H, Nobusako K, Zama T, Osumi M, Shimada S, Morioka S. Distortion of Visuo-Motor Temporal Integration in Apraxia: Evidence From Delayed Visual Feedback Detection Tasks and Voxel-Based Lesion-Symptom Mapping. Front Neurol 2018; 9:709. [PMID: 30210434 PMCID: PMC6119712 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Accepted: 08/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Limb apraxia is a higher brain dysfunction that typically occurs after left hemispheric stroke and its cause cannot be explained by sensory disturbance or motor paralysis. The comparison of motor signals and visual feedback to generate errors, i.e., visuo-motor integration, is important in motor control and motor learning, which may be impaired in apraxia. However, in apraxia after stroke, it is unknown whether there is a specific deficit in visuo-motor temporal integration compared to visuo-tactile and visuo-proprioceptive temporal integration. We examined the precision of visuo-motor temporal integration and sensory-sensory (visuo-tactile and visuo-proprioception) temporal integration in apraxia after stroke by using a delayed visual feedback detection task with three different conditions (tactile, passive movement, and active movement). The delay detection threshold and the probability curve for delay detection obtained in this task were quantitative indicators of the respective temporal integration functions. In addition, we performed subtraction and voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping to identify the brain lesions responsible for apraxia and deficits in visuo-motor temporal integration. The behavioral experiments showed that the delay detection threshold was extended and that the probability curve for delay detection was less steep in apraxic patients compared to controls (pseudo-apraxic patients and unaffected patients), only for the active movement condition, and not for the tactile and passive movement conditions. Furthermore, the severity of apraxia was significantly correlated with the delay detection threshold and the steepness of the probability curve in the active movement condition. These results indicated that multisensory (i.e., visual, tactile, and proprioception) feedback was normally temporally integrated, but motor prediction and visual feedback were not correctly temporally integrated in apraxic patients. That is, apraxic patients had difficulties with visuo-motor temporal integration. Lesion analyses revealed that both apraxia and the distortion of visuo-motor temporal integration were associated with lesions in the fronto-parietal motor network, including the left inferior parietal lobule and left inferior frontal gyrus. We suppose that damage to the left inferior fronto-parietal network could cause deficits in motor prediction for visuo-motor temporal integration, but not for sensory-sensory (visuo-tactile and visuo-proprioception) temporal integration, leading to the distortion of visuo-motor temporal integration in patients with apraxia.
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- Satoshi Nobusako
- Neurorehabilitation Research Center, Kio University, Nara, Japan.,Graduate School of Health Science, Kio University, Nara, Japan
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- Graduate School of Health Science, Kio University, Nara, Japan.,Department of Rehabilitation, Murata Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Rehabilitation, Murata Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Rehabilitation, Murata Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Cognitive-Neurorehabilitation Center, Setsunan General Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Cognitive-Neurorehabilitation Center, Setsunan General Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Cognitive-Neurorehabilitation Center, Setsunan General Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Rhythm-Based Brain Information Processing Unit, RIKEN CBS-TOYOTA Collaboration Center, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Saitama, Japan
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- Neurorehabilitation Research Center, Kio University, Nara, Japan.,Graduate School of Health Science, Kio University, Nara, Japan
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- Department of Electronics and Bioinformatics, School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Neurorehabilitation Research Center, Kio University, Nara, Japan.,Graduate School of Health Science, Kio University, Nara, Japan
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Hyde C, Fuelscher I, Williams J, Lum JAG, He J, Barhoun P, Enticott PG. Corticospinal excitability during motor imagery is reduced in young adults with developmental coordination disorder. RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES 2018; 72:214-224. [PMID: 29195158 DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2017.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2017] [Revised: 11/01/2017] [Accepted: 11/19/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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While a compelling body of behavioral research suggests that individuals with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) experience difficulties engaging motor imagery (MI), very little is known about the neural correlates of this deficit. Since corticospinal excitability is a predictor of MI proficiency in healthy adults, we reasoned that decreased MI efficiency in DCD may be paralleled by atypical primary motor cortex (PMC) activity. Participants were 29 young adults aged 18- 36 years: 8 with DCD (DCD) and 21 controls. Six participants with DCD and 15 controls showed behavioral profiles consistent with the use of a MI strategy (MI users) while performing a novel adaptation of the classic hand laterality task (HLT). Single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was administered to the hand node of the left PMC (hPMC) at 50ms, 400ms or 650ms post stimulus presentation during the HLT. Motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) were recorded from the right first dorsal interosseous (FDI) via electromyography. As predicted, MI users with DCD were significantly less efficient than MI using controls, shown by poorer performance on the HLT. Importantly, unlike healthy controls, no evidence of enhanced hPMC activity during MI was detected in our DCD group. Our data are consistent with the view that inefficient MI in DCD may be subserved by decreased hPMC activity. These findings are an important step towards clarifying the neuro-cognitive correlates of poor MI ability and motor skill in individuals with DCD.
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- C Hyde
- Deakin Child Study Centre, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
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- Deakin Child Study Centre, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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- Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Deakin Child Study Centre, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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- Deakin Child Study Centre, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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- Deakin Child Study Centre, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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- Deakin Child Study Centre, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
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The role of dorsal premotor cortex in mental rotation: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Brain Cogn 2017; 116:71-78. [PMID: 28606388 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2017.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2016] [Revised: 04/26/2017] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Although activation of dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) has been consistently observed in the neuroimaging studies of mental rotation, the functional meaning of PMd activation is still unclear and multiple alternative explanations have been suggested. The present study used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to investigate the role of PMd in mental rotation. Two tasks were used, involving mental rotation of hands and abstract objects, with either matching (same stimuli) or mirror stimuli. Compared to sham stimulation, TMS over right and left PMd regions significantly affected accuracy in the object task, specifically for the same stimuli. Furthermore, response times were longer following right PMd stimulation in both the object and the hand tasks, but again, selectively for the same stimuli. The effect of rotational angle on response times and accuracies was greater for the same stimuli. Moreover TMS over PMd impaired the performance accuracy selectively in these stimuli, mainly in a task that included abstract objects. For these reasons, the present findings indicate a contribution of PMd to mental rotation.
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Ferron L, Tremblay F. (Lack of) Corticospinal facilitation in association with hand laterality judgments. Exp Brain Res 2017; 235:2317-2326. [PMID: 28478575 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-017-4973-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
In recent years, mental practice strategies have drawn much interest in the field of rehabilitation. One form of mental practice particularly advocated involves judging the laterality of images depicting body parts. Such laterality judgments are thought to rely on implicit motor imagery via mental rotation of one own's limb. In this study, we sought to further characterize the involvement of the primary motor cortex (M1) in hand laterality judgments (HLJ) as performed in the context of an application designed for rehabilitation. To this end, we measured variations in corticospinal excitability in both hemispheres with motor evoked potentials (MEPs) while participants (n = 18, young adults) performed either HLJ or a mental counting task. A third condition (foot observation) provided additional control. We hypothesized that HLJ would lead to a selective MEP facilitation when compared to the other tasks and that this facilitation would be greater on the right than the left hemisphere. Contrary to our predictions, we found no evidence of task effects and hemispheric effects for the HLJ task. Significant task-related MEP facilitation was detected only for the mental counting task. A secondary experiment performed in a subset of participants (n = 6) to further test modulation during HLJ yielded the same results. We interpret the lack of facilitation with HLJ in the light of evidence that participants may rely on alternative strategies when asked to judge laterality when viewing depictions of body parts. The use of visual strategies notably would reduce the need to engage in mental rotation, thus reducing M1 involvement. These results have implications for applications of laterality tasks in the context of the rehabilitation program.
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- Lucas Ferron
- School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, 125 University, Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada
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- School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8M5, Canada. .,Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, K1N 5C8, Canada.
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The effector independent nature of motor imagery: Evidence from rTMS induced inhibition to the primary motor cortices. Neuropsychologia 2017; 97:1-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2016] [Revised: 01/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVES It is unclear whether the primary motor cortex (PMC) is involved in the mental simulation of movement [i.e., motor imagery (MI)]. The present study aimed to clarify PMC involvement using a highly novel adaptation of the hand laterality task (HLT). METHODS Participants were administered single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to the hand area of the left PMC (hPMC) at either 50 ms, 400 ms, or 650 ms post stimulus presentation. Motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) were recorded from the right first dorsal interosseous via electromyography. To avoid the confound of gross motor response, participant response (indicating left or right hand) was recorded via eye tracking. Participants were 22 healthy adults (18 to 36 years), 16 whose behavioral profile on the HLT was consistent with the use of a MI strategy (MI users). RESULTS hPMC excitability increased significantly during HLT performance for MI users, evidenced by significantly larger right hand MEPs following single-pulse TMS 50 ms, 400 ms, and 650 ms post stimulus presentation relative to baseline. Subsequent analysis showed that hPMC excitability was greater for more complex simulated hand movements, where hand MEPs at 50 ms were larger for biomechanically awkward movements (i.e., hands requiring lateral rotation) compared to simpler movements (i.e., hands requiring medial rotation). CONCLUSIONS These findings provide support for the modulation of PMC excitability during the HLT attributable to MI, and may indicate a role for the PMC during MI. (JINS, 2017, 23, 185-193).
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Cona G, Marino G, Semenza C. TMS of supplementary motor area (SMA) facilitates mental rotation performance: Evidence for sequence processing in SMA. Neuroimage 2016; 146:770-777. [PMID: 27989840 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.10.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2016] [Revised: 09/02/2016] [Accepted: 10/18/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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In the present study we applied online transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) bursts at 10Hz to the supplementary motor area (SMA) and primary motor cortex to test whether these regions are causally involved in mental rotation. Furthermore, in order to investigate what is the specific role played by SMA and primary motor cortex, two mental rotation tasks were used, which included pictures of hands and abstract objects, respectively. While primary motor cortex stimulation did not affect mental rotation performance, SMA stimulation improved the performance in the task with object stimuli, and only for the pairs of stimuli that had higher angular disparity between each other (i.e., 100° and 150°). The finding that the effect of SMA stimulation was modulated by the amount of spatial orientation information indicates that SMA is causally involved in the very act of mental rotation. More specifically, we propose that SMA mediates domain-general sequence processes, likely required to accumulate and integrate information that are, in this context, spatial. The possible physiological mechanisms underlying the facilitation of performance due to SMA stimulation are discussed.
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- G Cona
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Padua, Italy.
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Italy
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Padua, Italy; Center of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Padua, Italy; IRCCS San Camillo Hospital Foundation, Neuropsychology Unit, 30126 Lido-Venice, Italy
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Iso N, Moriuchi T, Sagari A, Kitajima E, Iso F, Tanaka K, Kikuchi Y, Tabira T, Higashi T. Monitoring Local Regional Hemodynamic Signal Changes during Motor Execution and Motor Imagery Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Front Physiol 2016; 6:416. [PMID: 26793118 PMCID: PMC4707267 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2015] [Accepted: 12/18/2015] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The aim of this study was to clarify the topographical localization of motor-related regional hemodynamic signal changes during motor execution (ME) and motor imagery (MI) by using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), as this technique is more clinically expedient than established methods (e.g., fMRI). Twenty right-handed healthy subjects participated in this study. The experimental protocol was a blocked design consisting of 3 cycles of 20 s of task performance and 30 s of rest. The tapping sequence task was performed with their fingers under 4 conditions: ME and MI with the right or left hand. Hemodynamic brain activity was measured with NIRS to monitor changes in oxygenated hemoglobin (oxy-Hb) concentration. Oxy-Hb in the somatosensory motor cortex (SMC) increased significantly only during contralateral ME and showed a significant interaction between task and hand. There was a main effect of hand in the left SMC. Although there were no significant main effects or interactions in the supplemental motor area (SMA) and premotor area (PMA), oxy-Hb increased substantially under all conditions. These results clarified the topographical localization by motor-related regional hemodynamic signal changes during ME and MI by using NIRS.
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- Naoki Iso
- Unit of Rehabilitation Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical SciencesNagasaki, Japan; Medical Corporation Toujinkai Miharadai HospitalNagasaki, Japan
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- Unit of Rehabilitation Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical SciencesNagasaki, Japan; Medical Corporation Toujinkai Miharadai HospitalNagasaki, Japan
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- Unit of Rehabilitation Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical SciencesNagasaki, Japan; Japanese Red Cross Society Nagasaki Genbaku HospitalNagasaki, Japan
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- Center for Industry, University and Government Cooperation, Nagasaki University Nagasaki, Japan
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- Unit of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Nagasaki, Japan
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- Unit of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Nagasaki, Japan
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- Unit of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Nishikyushu University Saga, Japan
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- Unit of Rehabilitation Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Nagasaki, Japan
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A prolonged motor imagery session alter imagined and actual movement durations: Potential implications for neurorehabilitation. Behav Brain Res 2016; 297:67-75. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.09.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2015] [Revised: 09/20/2015] [Accepted: 09/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Saimpont A, Mercier C, Malouin F, Guillot A, Collet C, Doyon J, Jackson PL. Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation enhances the effects of motor imagery training in a finger tapping task. Eur J Neurosci 2015; 43:113-9. [PMID: 26540137 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2015] [Revised: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 10/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Motor imagery (MI) training and anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) applied over the primary motor cortex can independently improve hand motor function. The main objective of this double-blind, sham-controlled study was to examine whether anodal tDCS over the primary motor cortex could enhance the effects of MI training on the learning of a finger tapping sequence. Thirty-six right-handed young human adults were assigned to one of three groups: (i) who performed MI training combined with anodal tDCS applied over the primary motor cortex; (ii) who performed MI training combined with sham tDCS; and (iii) who received tDCS while reading a book. The MI training consisted of mentally rehearsing an eight-item complex finger sequence for 13 min. Before (Pre-test), immediately after (Post-test 1), and at 90 min after (Post-test 2) MI training, the participants physically repeated the sequence as fast and as accurately as possible. An anova showed that the number of sequences correctly performed significantly increased between Pre-test and Post-test 1 and remained stable at Post-test 2 in the three groups (P < 0.001). Furthermore, the percentage increase in performance between Pre-test and Post-test 1 and Post-test 2 was significantly greater in the group that performed MI training combined with anodal tDCS compared with the other two groups (P < 0.05). As a potential physiological explanation, the synaptic strength within the primary motor cortex could have been reinforced by the association of MI training and tDCS compared with MI training alone and tDCS alone.
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- Arnaud Saimpont
- Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Réadaptation et Intégration Sociale, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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- Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Réadaptation et Intégration Sociale, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.,Département de Réadaptation, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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- Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Réadaptation et Intégration Sociale, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.,Département de Réadaptation, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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- Centre de Recherche et d'Innovation sur le Sport, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France.,Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Centre de Recherche et d'Innovation sur le Sport, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
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- Functional Neuroimaging Unit, CRUIGM, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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- Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Réadaptation et Intégration Sociale, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.,Ecole de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.,Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Québec, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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Avanzino L, Gueugneau N, Bisio A, Ruggeri P, Papaxanthis C, Bove M. Motor cortical plasticity induced by motor learning through mental practice. Front Behav Neurosci 2015; 9:105. [PMID: 25972791 PMCID: PMC4412065 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2015] [Accepted: 04/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Several investigations suggest that actual and mental actions trigger similar neural substrates. Motor learning via physical practice results in long-term potentiation (LTP)-like plasticity processes, namely potentiation of M1 and a temporary occlusion of additional LTP-like plasticity. However, whether this neuroplasticity process contributes to improve motor performance through mental practice remains to be determined. Here, we tested skill learning-dependent changes in primary motor cortex (M1) excitability and plasticity by means of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in subjects trained to physically execute or mentally perform a sequence of finger opposition movements. Before and after physical practice and motor-imagery practice, M1 excitability was evaluated by measuring the input-output (IO) curve of motor evoked potentials. M1 LTP and long-term depression (LTD)-like plasticity was assessed with paired-associative stimulation (PAS) of the median nerve and motor cortex using an interstimulus interval of 25 ms (PAS25) or 10 ms (PAS10), respectively. We found that even if after both practice sessions subjects significantly improved their movement speed, M1 excitability and plasticity were differentially influenced by the two practice sessions. First, we observed an increase in the slope of IO curve after physical but not after MI practice. Second, there was a reversal of the PAS25 effect from LTP-like plasticity to LTD-like plasticity following physical and MI practice. Third, LTD-like plasticity (PAS10 protocol) increased after physical practice, whilst it was occluded after MI practice. In conclusion, we demonstrated that MI practice lead to the development of neuroplasticity, as it affected the PAS25- and PAS10- induced plasticity in M1. These results, expanding the current knowledge on how MI training shapes M1 plasticity, might have a potential impact in rehabilitation.
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- Laura Avanzino
- Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Human Physiology, University of Genoa Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Human Physiology, University of Genoa Genoa, Italy ; Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives Dijon, France ; Laboratoire Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 1093, Cognition, Action et Plasticité Sensorimotrice, Université de Bourgogne Dijon, France
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Human Physiology, University of Genoa Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Human Physiology, University of Genoa Genoa, Italy
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- Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives Dijon, France ; Laboratoire Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 1093, Cognition, Action et Plasticité Sensorimotrice, Université de Bourgogne Dijon, France
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Human Physiology, University of Genoa Genoa, Italy
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Gentili RJ, Papaxanthis C. Laterality effects in motor learning by mental practice in right-handers. Neuroscience 2015; 297:231-42. [PMID: 25797464 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.02.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2014] [Revised: 01/22/2015] [Accepted: 02/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Converging evidences suggest that mental movement simulation and actual movement production share similar neurocognitive and learning processes. Although a large body of data is available in the literature regarding mental states involving the dominant arm, examinations for the nondominant arm are sparse. Does mental training, through motor-imagery practice, with the dominant arm or the nondominant arm is equally efficient for motor learning? In the current study, we investigated laterality effects in motor learning by motor-imagery practice. Four groups of right-hander adults mentally and physically performed as fast and accurately as possible (speed/accuracy trade-off paradigm) successive reaching movements with their dominant or nondominant arm (physical-training-dominant-arm, mental-training-dominant-arm, physical-training-nondominant-arm, and mental-training-nondominant-arm groups). Movement time was recorded and analyzed before, during, and after the training sessions. We found that physical and mental practice had a positive effect on the motor performance (i.e., decrease in movement time) of both arms through similar learning process (i.e., similar exponential learning curves). However, movement time reduction in the posttest session was significantly higher after physical practice than motor-imagery practice for both arms. More importantly, motor-imagery practice with the dominant arm resulted in larger and more robust improvements in movement speed compared to motor-imagery practice with the nondominant arm. No such improvements were observed in the control group. Our results suggest a superiority of the dominant arm in motor learning by mental practice. We discussed these findings from the perspective of the internal models theory.
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- R J Gentili
- Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Graduate Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA; Maryland Robotics Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
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- Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche (UFR) en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives (STAPS), Dijon, France; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), UMR 1093, Cognition, Action et Plasticité Sensorimotrice (CAPS), Dijon, France
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Grafton ST, Viswanathan S. Rethinking the role of motor simulation in perceptual decisions. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2014; 826:69-90. [PMID: 25330886 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1338-1_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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- Scott T Grafton
- Department of Psychological Brain Sciences, University of California, 93106-9660, Santa Barbara, CA, USA,
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ROZAND VIANNEY, LEBON FLORENT, PAPAXANTHIS CHARALAMBOS, LEPERS ROMUALD. Does a Mental Training Session Induce Neuromuscular Fatigue? Med Sci Sports Exerc 2014; 46:1981-9. [DOI: 10.1249/mss.0000000000000327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Martínez NT. [Mental Imagery: Neurophysiology and Implications in Psychiatry]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 43:40-6. [PMID: 26573255 DOI: 10.1016/s0034-7450(14)70041-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2013] [Accepted: 09/09/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To provide an explanation about what mental imagery is and some implications in psychiatry. METHODS This article is a narrative literature review. RESULTS There are many terms in which imagery representations are described in different fields of research. They are defined as perceptions in the absence of an external stimulus, and can be created in any sensory modality. Their neurophysiological substrate is almost the same as the one activated during sensory perception. There is no unified theory about its function, but it is possibly the way that our brain uses and manipulates the information to respond to the environment. CONCLUSIONS Mental imagery is an everyday phenomenon, and when it occurs in specific patterns it can be a sign of mental disorders.
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- Nathalie Tamayo Martínez
- Especialista en Psiquiatría de Enlace, Maestría en Epidemiología Clínica, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Psiquiatra adscrita, Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Paz, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Gandrey P, Paizis C, Karathanasis V, Gueugneau N, Papaxanthis C. Dominant vs. nondominant arm advantage in mentally simulated actions in right handers. J Neurophysiol 2013; 110:2887-94. [DOI: 10.1152/jn.00123.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Although plentiful data are available regarding mental states involving the dominant-right arm, the evidence for the nondominant-left arm is sparse. Here, we investigated whether right-handers can generate accurate predictions with either the right or the left arm. Fifteen adults carried out actual and mental arm movements in two directions with varying inertial resistance (inertial anisotropy phenomenon). We recorded actual and mental movement times and used the degree of their similarity as an indicator for the accuracy of motor imagery/prediction process. We found timing correspondences (isochrony) between actual and mental right arm movements in both rightward (low inertia resistance) and leftward (high inertia resistance) directions. Timing similarities between actual and mental left arm movements existed for the leftward direction (low inertia resistance) but not for the rightward direction (high inertia resistance). We found similar results when participants reaching towards the midline of the workspace, a result that excludes a hemispace effect. Electromyographic analysis during mental movements showed that arm muscles remained inactivate, thus eliminating a muscle activation strategy that could explain intermanual differences. Furthermore, motor-evoked potentials enhancement in both right and left biceps brachii during mental actions indicated that subjects were actively engaged in mental movement simulation and that the disadvantage of the left arm cannot be attributed to the nonactivation of the right motor cortex. Our findings suggest that predictive mechanisms are more robust for the right than the left arm in right-handers. We discussed these findings from the perspective of the internal models theory and the dynamic-dominance hypothesis of laterality.
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- Philippe Gandrey
- Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Campus Universitaire, Dijon, France
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1093, Cognition, Action et Plasticité Sensorimotrice, Université de Bourgogne, Campus Universitaire, Dijon, France; and
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- Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Campus Universitaire, Dijon, France
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1093, Cognition, Action et Plasticité Sensorimotrice, Université de Bourgogne, Campus Universitaire, Dijon, France; and
- Centre d'Expertise de la Performance, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
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- Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Campus Universitaire, Dijon, France
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- Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Campus Universitaire, Dijon, France
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1093, Cognition, Action et Plasticité Sensorimotrice, Université de Bourgogne, Campus Universitaire, Dijon, France; and
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- Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Campus Universitaire, Dijon, France
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U1093, Cognition, Action et Plasticité Sensorimotrice, Université de Bourgogne, Campus Universitaire, Dijon, France; and
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Fiori F, Sedda A, Ferrè ER, Toraldo A, Querzola M, Pasotti F, Ovadia D, Piroddi C, Dell'Aquila R, Redaelli T, Bottini G. Motor imagery in spinal cord injury patients: Moving makes the difference. J Neuropsychol 2013; 8:199-215. [DOI: 10.1111/jnp.12020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2012] [Revised: 03/25/2013] [Accepted: 03/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Federico Fiori
- Center of Cognitive Neuropsychology; A.O. Niguarda Ca' Granda; Milan Italy
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- Department of Humanistic Studies - Psychology Section; University of Pavia; Italy
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- Department of Humanistic Studies - Psychology Section; University of Pavia; Italy
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- Center of Cognitive Neuropsychology; A.O. Niguarda Ca' Granda; Milan Italy
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- Center of Cognitive Neuropsychology; A.O. Niguarda Ca' Granda; Milan Italy
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- Center of Cognitive Neuropsychology; A.O. Niguarda Ca' Granda; Milan Italy
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- Unipolar Spinal Unit; A.O. Niguarda Ca' Granda; Milan Italy
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- Center of Cognitive Neuropsychology; A.O. Niguarda Ca' Granda; Milan Italy
- Department of Humanistic Studies - Psychology Section; University of Pavia; Italy
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Chen X, Bin G, Daly I, Gao X. Event-related desynchronization (ERD) in the alpha band during a hand mental rotation task. Neurosci Lett 2013; 541:238-42. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.02.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2012] [Revised: 02/01/2013] [Accepted: 02/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Exploring motor and visual imagery in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Exp Brain Res 2013; 226:537-47. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3465-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2012] [Accepted: 02/21/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Gueugneau N, Bove M, Avanzino L, Jacquin A, Pozzo T, Papaxanthis C. Interhemispheric inhibition during mental actions of different complexity. PLoS One 2013; 8:e56973. [PMID: 23451125 PMCID: PMC3581568 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2012] [Accepted: 01/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Several investigations suggest that actual and mental actions trigger similar neural substrates. Yet, neurophysiological evidences on the nature of interhemispheric interactions during mental movements are still meagre. Here, we asked whether the content of mental images, investigated by task complexity, is finely represented in the inhibitory interactions between the two primary motor cortices (M1s). Subjects' left M1 was stimulated by means of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) while they were performing actual or mental movements of increasing complexity with their right hand and exerting a maximum isometric force with their left thumb and index. Thus, we simultaneously assessed the corticospinal excitability in the right opponent pollicis muscle (OP) and the ipsilateral silent period (iSP) in the left OP during actual and mental movements. Corticospinal excitability in right OP increased during actual and mental movements, but task complexity-dependent changes were only observed during actual movements. Interhemispheric motor inhibition in the left OP was similarly modulated by task complexity in both mental and actual movements. Precisely, the duration and the area of the iSP increased with task complexity in both movement conditions. Our findings suggest that mental and actual movements share similar inhibitory neural circuits between the two homologous primary motor cortex areas.
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- Nicolas Gueugneau
- Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Dijon, France
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 1093, Cognition, Action et Plasticité sensorimotrice, Dijon, France
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Human Physiology and Centro Polifunzionale di Scienze Motorie, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, Section of Human Physiology and Centro Polifunzionale di Scienze Motorie, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
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- Service de Neurologie, Faculté de Médecine de Dijon, Dijon, France
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- Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Dijon, France
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 1093, Cognition, Action et Plasticité sensorimotrice, Dijon, France
- Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
- Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
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- Université de Bourgogne, Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives, Dijon, France
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 1093, Cognition, Action et Plasticité sensorimotrice, Dijon, France
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Vannuscorps G, Pillon A, Andres M. Effect of biomechanical constraints in the hand laterality judgment task: where does it come from? Front Hum Neurosci 2012; 6:299. [PMID: 23125830 PMCID: PMC3485652 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2012] [Accepted: 10/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Several studies have reported that, when subjects have to judge the laterality of rotated hand drawings, their judgment is automatically influenced by the biomechanical constraints of the upper limbs. The prominent account for this effect is that, in order to perform the task, subjects mentally rotate their upper limbs toward the position of the displayed stimulus in a way that is consistent with the biomechanical constraints underlying the actual movement. However, the effect of such biomechanical constraints was also found in the responses of motor-impaired individuals performing the hand laterality judgment (HLJ) task, which seems at odds with the “motor imagery” account for this effect. In this study, we further explored the source of the biomechanical constraint effect by assessing the ability of an individual (DC) with a congenital absence of upper limbs to judge the laterality of rotated hand or foot drawings. We found that DC was as accurate and fast as control participants in judging the laterality of both hand and foot drawings, without any disadvantage for hands when compared to feet. Furthermore, DC's response latencies (RLs) for hand drawings were influenced by the biomechanical constraints of hand movements in the same way as control participants' RLs. These results suggest that the effect of biomechanical constraints in the HLJ task is not strictly dependent on “motor imagery” and can arise from the visual processing of body parts being sensitive to such constraints.
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- Gilles Vannuscorps
- Institute of Psychological Sciences and Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium ; Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique Brussels, Belgium
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Common substrate for mental arithmetic and finger representation in the parietal cortex. Neuroimage 2012; 62:1520-8. [PMID: 22634854 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2012] [Revised: 05/15/2012] [Accepted: 05/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The history of mathematics provides several examples of the use of fingers to count or calculate. These observations converge with developmental data showing that fingers play a critical role in the acquisition of arithmetic knowledge. Further studies evidenced specific interference of finger movements with arithmetic problem solving in adults, raising the question of whether or not finger and number manipulations rely on common brain areas. In the present study, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate the possible overlap between the brain areas involved in mental arithmetic and those involved in finger discrimination. Solving subtraction and multiplication problems was found to increase cerebral activation bilaterally in the horizontal part of the intraparietal sulcus (hIPS) and in the posterior part of the superior parietal lobule (PSPL). Finger discrimination was associated with increased activity in a bilateral occipito-parieto-precentral network extending from the extrastriate body area to the primary somatosensory and motor cortices. A conjunction analysis showed common areas for mental arithmetic and finger representation in the hIPS and PSPL bilaterally. Voxelwise correlations further showed that finger discrimination and mental arithmetic induced a similar pattern of activity within the parietal areas only. Pattern similarity was more important for the left than for the right hIPS and for subtraction than for multiplication. These findings provide the first evidence that the brain circuits involved in finger representation also underlie arithmetic operations in adults.
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Raffin E, Mattout J, Reilly KT, Giraux P. Disentangling motor execution from motor imagery with the phantom limb. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 135:582-95. [PMID: 22345089 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Amputees can move their phantom limb at will. These 'movements without movements' have generally been considered as motor imagery rather than motor execution, but amputees can in fact perform both executed and imagined movements with their phantom and they report distinct perceptions during each task. Behavioural evidence for this dual ability comes from the fact that executed movements are associated with stump muscle contractions whereas imagined movements are not, and that phantom executed movements are slower than intact hand executed movements whereas the speed of imagined movements is identical for both hands. Since neither execution nor imagination produces any visible movement, we hypothesized that the perceptual difference between these two motor tasks relies on the activation of distinct cerebral networks. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging and changes in functional connectivity (dynamic causal modelling), we examined the activity associated with imagined and executed movements of the intact and phantom hands of 14 upper-limb amputees. Distinct but partially overlapping cerebral networks were active during both executed and imagined phantom limb movements (both performed at the same speed). A region of interest analysis revealed a 'switch' between execution and imagination; during execution there was more activity in the primary somatosensory cortex, the primary motor cortex and the anterior lobe of the cerebellum, while during imagination there was more activity in the parietal and occipital lobes, and the posterior lobe of the cerebellum. In overlapping areas, task-related differences were detected in the location of activation peaks. The dynamic causal modelling analysis further confirmed the presence of a clear neurophysiological distinction between imagination and execution, as motor imagery and motor execution had opposite effects on the supplementary motor area-primary motor cortex network. This is the first imaging evidence that the neurophysiological network activated during phantom limb movements is similar to that of executed movements of intact limbs and differs from the phantom limb imagination network. The dual ability of amputees to execute and imagine movements of their phantom limb and the fact that these two tasks activate distinct cortical networks are important factors to consider when designing rehabilitation programmes for the treatment of phantom limb pain.
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- Estelle Raffin
- Service de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, Hôpital Bellevue, CHU de Saint-Etienne, F-42055 Saint-Etienne, France
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Debarnot U, Clerget E, Olivier E. Role of the primary motor cortex in the early boost in performance following mental imagery training. PLoS One 2011; 6:e26717. [PMID: 22046337 PMCID: PMC3202558 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2011] [Accepted: 10/03/2011] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Recently, it has been suggested that the primary motor cortex (M1) plays a critical role in implementing the fast and transient post-training phase of motor skill consolidation, known to yield an early boost in performance. Whether a comparable early boost in performance occurs following motor imagery (MIM) training is still unknown. To address this issue, two groups of subjects learned a finger tapping sequence either by MIM or physical practice (PP). In both groups, performance increased significantly in the post-training phase when compared with the pre-training phase and further increased after a 30 min resting period, indicating that both MIM and PP trainings were equally efficient and induced an early boost in motor performance. This conclusion was corroborated by the results of an additional control group. In a second experiment, we then investigated the causal role of M1 in implementing the early boost process resulting from MIM training. To do so, we inhibited M1 by applying a continuous theta-burst stimulation (cTBS) in healthy volunteers just after they learnt, by MIM, the same finger-tapping task as in Experiment #1. As a control, cTBS was applied over the vertex of subjects who underwent the same experiment. We found that cTBS applied over M1 selectively abolished the early boost process subsequent to MIM training. Altogether, the present study provides evidence that MIM practice induces an early boost in performance and demonstrates that M1 is causally involved in this process. These findings further divulge some degree of behavioral and neuronal similitude between MIM and PP.
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- Ursula Debarnot
- Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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