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Baumard J, Lesourd M, Jarry C, Merck C, Etcharry-Bouyx F, Chauviré V, Belliard S, Osiurak F, Le Gall D. Knowing "what for," but not "where": Dissociation between functional and contextual tool knowledge in healthy individuals and patients with dementia. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2024; 30:97-106. [PMID: 37650212 DOI: 10.1017/s1355617723000486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Semantic tool knowledge underlies the ability to perform activities of daily living. Models of apraxia have emphasized the role of functional knowledge about the action performed with tools (e.g., a hammer and a mallet allow a "hammering" action), and contextual knowledge informing individuals about where to find tools in the social space (e.g., a hammer and a mallet can be found in a workshop). The goal of this study was to test whether contextual or functional knowledge, would be central in the organization of tool knowledge. It was assumed that contextual knowledge would be more salient than functional knowledge for healthy controls and that patients with dementia would show impaired contextual knowledge. METHODS We created an original, open-ended categorization task with ambiguity, in which the same familiar tools could be matched on either contextual or functional criteria. RESULTS In our findings, healthy controls prioritized a contextual, over a functional criterion. Patients with dementia had normal visual categorization skills (as demonstrated by an original picture categorization task), yet they made less contextual, but more functional associations than healthy controls. CONCLUSION The findings support a dissociation between functional knowledge ("what for") on the one hand, and contextual knowledge ("where") on the other hand. While functional knowledge may be distributed across semantic and action-related factors, contextual knowledge may actually be the name of higher-order social norms applied to tool knowledge. These findings may encourage researchers to test both functional and contextual knowledge to diagnose semantic deficits and to use open-ended categorization tests.
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- Laboratoire de Recherches Intégratives en Neurosciences et Psychologie Cognitive & MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (EA 4638), Université d'Angers, Angers, France
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Pontchaillou, Rennes, France
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Angers, Angers, France
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- Department of Neurology, University Hospital Pontchaillou, Rennes, France
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (EA 4638), Université d'Angers, Angers, France
- Département de Neurologie, Unité de Neuropsychologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers, Angers, France
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Guézouli L, Roy V, Bodoux C, Baumard J. A fist bump in a political meeting? The influence of social context on affordance selection. Brain Cogn 2023; 173:106100. [PMID: 37988859 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2023.106100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/23/2023]
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Historically, understanding human cognition such as action processing has been a challenging issue in cognitive neuropsychology and the more we know about cognition, the more we shape it as a complex, multi-determined phenomenon that is embedded in a social context. The present study aimed at understanding how the social context could influence affordance selection. We hypothesized that affordance selection would be modulated by social context and that a given hand configuration would be considered appropriate or not, as a function of the presence or absence of social context. Twenty-six healthy participants were asked to judge the appropriateness of three variants of 10 hand-object interactions based on photographs presented with or without a visual, social context. In our results, hand configurations were intrinsically acceptable or not, but this effect was modulated by the social context. A three-step model of the influence of social context on affordance selection was proposed, according to which selection depends on social norms, in the form of social knowledge and social context analysis.
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- Léna Guézouli
- Univ Rouen Normandie, CRFDP UR 7475, F-76000 Rouen, France.
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, CRFDP UR 7475, F-76000 Rouen, France
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- Univ Rouen Normandie, CRFDP UR 7475, F-76000 Rouen, France
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Kleineberg NN, Tscherpel C, Fink GR, Grefkes C, Weiss PH. Different facets of object-use pantomime: online TMS evidence on the role of the supramarginal gyrus. Cortex 2022; 156:13-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.06.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Osiurak F, Reynaud E, Baumard J, Rossetti Y, Bartolo A, Lesourd M. Pantomime of tool use: looking beyond apraxia. Brain Commun 2022; 3:fcab263. [PMID: 35350708 PMCID: PMC8936430 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcab263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2021] [Revised: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Pantomime has a long tradition in clinical neuropsychology of apraxia. It has been much more used by researchers and clinicians to assess tool-use disorders than real tool use. Nevertheless, it remains incompletely understood and has given rise to controversies, such as the involvement of the left inferior parietal lobe or the nature of the underlying cognitive processes. The present article offers a comprehensive framework, with the aim of specifying the neural and cognitive bases of pantomime. To do so, we conducted a series of meta-analyses of brain-lesion, neuroimaging and behavioural studies about pantomime and other related tasks (i.e. real tool use, imitation of meaningless postures and semantic knowledge). The first key finding is that the area PF (Area PF complex) within the left inferior parietal lobe is crucially involved in both pantomime and real tool use as well as in the kinematics component of pantomime. The second key finding is the absence of a well-defined neural substrate for the posture component of pantomime (both grip errors and body-part-as-tool responses). The third key finding is the role played by the intraparietal sulcus in both pantomime and imitation of meaningless postures. The fourth key finding is that the left angular gyrus seems to be critical in the production of motor actions directed towards the body. The fifth key finding is that performance on pantomime is strongly correlated with the severity of semantic deficits. Taken together, these findings invite us to offer a neurocognitive model of pantomime, which provides an integrated alternative to the two hypotheses that dominate the field: The gesture-engram hypothesis and the communicative hypothesis. More specifically, this model assumes that technical reasoning (notably the left area PF), the motor-control system (notably the intraparietal sulcus), body structural description (notably the left angular gyrus), semantic knowledge (notably the polar temporal lobes) and potentially theory of mind (notably the middle prefrontal cortex) work in concert to produce pantomime. The original features of this model open new avenues for understanding the neurocognitive bases of pantomime, emphasizing that pantomime is a communicative task that nevertheless originates in specific tool-use (not motor-related) cognitive processes. <Please insert Graphical abstract here>
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- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA3082), Université Lyon 2, 69676 Bron, France.,Institut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA3082), Université Lyon 2, 69676 Bron, France
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- Normandie University, UNIROUEN, CRFDP (EA7475), 76821 Mont Saint Aignan, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Trajectoires Team, CNRS U5292, Inserm U1028, Université de Lyon, 69676 Bron, France.,Mouvement, Handicap, et Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Hôpital Henry Gabrielle, 69230 Saint-Genis-Laval, France
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- Institut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, France.,Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR9193, SCALab-Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Laboratoire de Recherches Intégratives en Neurosciences et Psychologie Cognitive (UR481), Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25030 Besançon, France.,MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France
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Gabriel A, Lehner CT, Höhler C, Schneider T, Pfeiffer TPT, Diehl-Schmid J, Hermsdörfer J. Anticipatory and Reactive Grip Force Control in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease: A Pilot Study. J Alzheimers Dis 2021; 82:1651-1665. [PMID: 34219727 DOI: 10.3233/jad-210387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects several cognitive functions and causes altered motor function. Fine motor deficits during object manipulation are evident in other neurological conditions, but have not been assessed in dementia patients yet. OBJECTIVE Investigate reactive and anticipatory grip force control in response to unexpected and expected load force perturbation in AD. METHODS Reactive and anticipatory grip force was investigated using a grip-device with force sensors. In this pilot study, fifteen AD patients and fourteen healthy controls performed a catching task. They held the device with one hand while a sandbag was dropped into an attached receptacle either by the experimenter or by the participant. RESULTS In contrast to studies of other neurological conditions, the majority of AD patients exerted lower static grip force levels than controls. Interestingly, patients who were slow in the Luria's three-step test produced normal grip forces. The timing and magnitude of reactive grip force control were largely preserved in patients. In contrast, timing and extent of anticipatory grip forces were impaired in patients, although anticipatory control was generally preserved. These deficits were correlated with decreasing Mini-Mental State Examination scores. Apraxia scores, assessed by pantomime of tool-use, did not correlate with performance in the catching task. CONCLUSION We interpreted the decreased grip force in AD in the context of loss of strength and lethargy, typical for patients with AD. The lower static grip force during object manipulation may emerge as a potential biomarker for early stages of AD, but more studies with larger sample sizes are necessary.
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- Anna Gabriel
- Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.,Department of Neurology, Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
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- Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Klinikum rechts der Isar, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Lesourd M, Servant M, Baumard J, Reynaud E, Ecochard C, Medjaoui FT, Bartolo A, Osiurak F. Semantic and action tool knowledge in the brain: Identifying common and distinct networks. Neuropsychologia 2021; 159:107918. [PMID: 34166668 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107918] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2020] [Revised: 06/10/2021] [Accepted: 06/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Most cognitive models of apraxia assume that impaired tool use results from a deficit occurring at the conceptual level, which contains dedicated information about tool use, namely, semantic and action tool knowledge. Semantic tool knowledge contains information about the prototypical use of familiar tools, such as function (e.g., a hammer and a mallet share the same purpose) and associative relations (e.g., a hammer goes with a nail). Action tool knowledge contains information about how to manipulate tools, such as hand posture and kinematics. The present review aimed to better understand the neural correlates of action and semantic tool knowledge, by focusing on activation, stimulation and patients' studies (left brain-damaged patients). We found that action and semantic tool knowledge rely upon a large brain network including temporal and parietal regions. Yet, while action tool knowledge calls into play the intraparietal sulcus, function relations mostly involve the anterior and posterior temporal lobe. Associative relations engaged the angular and the posterior middle temporal gyrus. Moreover, we found that hand posture and kinematics both tapped into the inferior parietal lobe and the lateral occipital temporal cortex, but no region specificity was found for one or the other representation. Our results point out the major role of both posterior middle temporal gyrus and inferior parietal lobe for action and semantic tool knowledge. They highlight the common and distinct brain networks involved in action and semantic tool networks and spur future directions on this topic.
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- Mathieu Lesourd
- Laboratoire de Recherches Intégratives en Neurosciences et Psychologie Cognitive, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France; MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France.
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- Laboratoire de Recherches Intégratives en Neurosciences et Psychologie Cognitive, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France; MSHE Ledoux, CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, F-25000, Besançon, France
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- Laboratoire d'Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université Lyon 2, Bron, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 9193 - SCALab - Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives, F-59000, Lille, France; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), France
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- Laboratoire d'Étude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université Lyon 2, Bron, France; Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), France
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Jarry C, Osiurak F, Baumard J, Lesourd M, Coiffard C, Lucas C, Merck C, Etcharry-Bouyx F, Chauviré V, Belliard S, Moreaud O, Croisile B, Le Gall D. Daily life activities in patients with Alzheimer's disease or semantic dementia: Multitasking assessment. Neuropsychologia 2020; 150:107714. [PMID: 33285188 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Revised: 11/05/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The aim of the present study was to compare patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD) or semantic dementia (SD) on their cognitive processes and the severity of their daily life activity impairments. Three types of tasks were administered to patients (SD = 15; AD = 31) and 30 healthy controls (HC): 1) informant-based scales and questionnaires, 2) a neuropsychological assessment exploring executive functions, episodic and semantic memory, and 3) a new original test featuring multi-step naturalistic actions and multitasking: the Sequential Daily Life Multitasking (SDLM). We predicted that patients with AD would mainly exhibit task perplexity, associated with episodic and executive deficits on the SDLM, while the behavior of patients with SD would mostly be characterized by object perplexity, associated with semantic memory deficits. Results showed that patients with AD or SD were impaired across all neuropsychological tests, particularly episodic memory in AD and semantic memory in SD. General performance on the SDLM also appeared dramatically impaired in both patient groups, and correlated with results of questionnaires about instrumental activities and memory impairments. However, specific qualitative measurements on the SDLM did not allow us to pinpoint different patterns of errors and behavior in patients with AD versus SD. We suggest that the inability of patients in both groups to perform the SDLM may derive from a constellation of disorders or else from more subtle impairment of cognitive and conative processes that requires further exploration.
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- Christophe Jarry
- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de La Loire, LPPL EA 4638, SFR Confluences, UNIV Angers, Nantes Université, Maison de La Recherche Germaine Tillion, 5 Bis Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers, Cedex 01, France.
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- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EA 3082), Université de Lyon, France; Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie (EA3188), Université Bourgogne Franche Comté, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de La Loire, LPPL EA 4638, SFR Confluences, UNIV Angers, Nantes Université, Maison de La Recherche Germaine Tillion, 5 Bis Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers, Cedex 01, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de La Loire, LPPL EA 4638, SFR Confluences, UNIV Angers, Nantes Université, Maison de La Recherche Germaine Tillion, 5 Bis Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers, Cedex 01, France
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- Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pontchaillou, CMRR, Rennes, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de La Loire, LPPL EA 4638, SFR Confluences, UNIV Angers, Nantes Université, Maison de La Recherche Germaine Tillion, 5 Bis Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers, Cedex 01, France; Unité de Neuropsychologie, Département de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers, France
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- Unité de Neuropsychologie, Département de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers, France
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- Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pontchaillou, CMRR, Rennes, France; Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie, Unité INSERM U 1077, Caen, France
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- CMRR Grenoble Arc Alpin, Pôle de Psychiatrie et Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble, France; Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neurocognition CNRS UMR 5105, Grenoble, France
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- Service de Neuropsychologie, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Bron, France
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- Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de La Loire, LPPL EA 4638, SFR Confluences, UNIV Angers, Nantes Université, Maison de La Recherche Germaine Tillion, 5 Bis Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers, Cedex 01, France; Unité de Neuropsychologie, Département de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers, France
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Using tools effectively despite defective hand posture: A single-case study. Cortex 2020; 129:406-422. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2019] [Revised: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Yliranta A, Jehkonen M. Limb and face apraxias in frontotemporal dementia: A systematic scoping review. Cortex 2020; 129:529-547. [PMID: 32418629 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.03.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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PURPOSE To investigate the literature for frequencies, profiles and neural correlates of limb and face apraxias in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). METHOD The search conducted in Ovid Medline, PsycINFO and Scopus yielded 487 non-duplicate records, and 43 were included in the final analysis. RESULTS Apraxias are evident in diverse forms in all clinical variants of FTD within the first four years of the disease. Face apraxia and productive limb apraxia co-occur in the behavioural and nonfluent variants. The logopenic variant resembles Alzheimer's disease in terms of pronounced parietal limb apraxia and absence of face apraxia. The semantic variant exhibits conceptual praxis deficits together with relatively preserved imitation skills. Concerning the genetic variants of FTD, productive limb apraxia is common among carriers of the progranulin gene mutation, and subtle gestural alterations have been documented among carriers of the chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 gene mutation before the expected disease onset. The data on neural correlations suggest that the breakdown of praxis results from bilateral cortical and subcortical damage in FTD and that Alzheimer-type pathology of the cerebrospinal fluid increases the severity of limb apraxia in all of the variants. Face apraxia correlates with degeneration of the medial and superior frontal cortices. CONCLUSIONS Each of the clinical variants of FTD exhibits a characteristic profile of apraxias that may support early differentiation between the variants and from Alzheimer's disease. However, the screening procedures developed for stroke populations seem insufficient, and a multifaceted assessment tool is needed. Although valid and practical tests already exist for dementia populations, a concise selection of test items that covers all of the critical domains is called for.
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- Aino Yliranta
- Neurology Clinic, Lapland Central Hospital, Rovaniemi, Finland; Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
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- Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
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Osiurak F, Lesourd M, Rossetti Y, Baumard J. Is There Really a Loss of Agency in Patients With Apraxia of Tool Use? Front Psychol 2019; 10:87. [PMID: 30804829 PMCID: PMC6370719 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2018] [Accepted: 01/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- François Osiurak
- Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France,Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France,*Correspondence: François Osiurak
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- Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, CNRS, LNC, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France,CNRS, Fédération 3C, Aix Marseille Univ, Marseille, France
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- Integrative, Multisensory, Perception, Action, and Cognition Team, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, INSERM-CNRS-Université de Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France,Mouvement, Handicap et Neuro-Immersion, Hospices Civils de Lyon et Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France
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Lesourd M, Budriesi C, Osiurak F, Nichelli PF, Bartolo A. Mechanical knowledge does matter to tool use even when assessed with a non-production task: Evidence from left brain-damaged patients. J Neuropsychol 2017; 13:198-213. [DOI: 10.1111/jnp.12140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Revised: 11/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Mathieu Lesourd
- Laboratory for the Study of Cognitive Mechanisms (EA 3082); Lyon University; Bron France
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- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic, and Neural Sciences; University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Italy
- Center for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Italy
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- Laboratory for the Study of Cognitive Mechanisms (EA 3082); Lyon University; Bron France
- Institut Universitaire de France; Paris France
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- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic, and Neural Sciences; University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Italy
- Center for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; Italy
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- Institut Universitaire de France; Paris France
- Cognitive and Affective Sciences Laboratory (SCALab) CNRS UMR 9193; CHU; Lille University; Lille France
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Involvement of the Left Supramarginal Gyrus in Manipulation Judgment Tasks: Contributions to Theories of Tool Use. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2017. [PMID: 28625209 DOI: 10.1017/s1355617717000455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Two theories of tool use, namely the gesture engram and the technical reasoning theories, make distinct predictions about the involvement of the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) in manipulation judgement tasks. The objective here is to test these alternative predictions based on previous studies on manipulation judgment tasks using transcranial magnetic stimulations (TMS) targeting the left supramarginal gyrus (SMG). METHODS We review recent TMS studies on manipulation judgement tasks and confront these data with predictions made by both tool use theories. RESULTS The left SMG is a highly intertwined region, organized following several functionally distinct areas and TMS may have disrupted a cortical network involved in the ability to use tools rather than only one functional area supporting manipulation knowledge. Moreover, manipulation judgement tasks may be impaired following virtual lesions outside the IPL. CONCLUSIONS These data are more in line with the technical reasoning hypothesis, which assumes that the left IPL does not store manipulation knowledge per se. (JINS, 2017, 23, 685-691).
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