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Do imagined and executed actions share the same neural substrate?

Decety, Jean·1996·Cognitive Brain Research

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This paper addresses the issue of the functional correlates of motor imagery, using mental chronometry, monitoring the autonomic responses and measuring cerebral blood flow in humans. The timing of mentally simulated actions closely mimic actual movement times. Autonomic responses during motor imagery parallel the autonomic responses to actual exercise. Cerebral blood flow increases are observed in the motor cortices involved in the programming of actual movement (i.e. premotor cortex, anterior cingulate, inferior parietal lobule and cerebellum). These three sources of data provide converging support for the hypothesis that imagined and executed actions share, to some extent, the same central structures.

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Authors: Decety, J.
Venue: Cognitive Brain Research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 1996-03
Volume: 3
Issue: 2
Pages: 87-93
ISSN: 0926-6410 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/0926-6410(95)00033-x
OpenAlex: W2009207558
Cited by: 643
References: 64
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 34 · 2013: 42 · 2012: 31
FWCI: 16.00
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Cognitive Brain Research (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
Keywords: motor imagery, motor execution, shared neural substrates, mental chronometry, autonomic responses, cerebral blood flow, movement time, premotor cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, inferior parietal lobule, cerebellum, motor cortex
MeSH terms: Autonomic Nervous System, Brain, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Chronobiology Phenomena, Humans, Imagination, Motor Activity

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