The neuroscience of grasping.
Abstract
People have always been fascinated by the exquisite precision and flexibility of the human hand. When hand meets object, we confront the overlapping worlds of sensorimotor and cognitive functions. We reach for objects, grasp and lift them, manipulate them and use them to act on other objects. This review examines one of these actions--grasping. Recent research in behavioural neuroscience, neuroimaging and electrophysiology has the potential to reveal where in the brain the process of grasping is organized, but has yet to address several questions about the sensorimotor transformations that relate to the control of the hands.
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Visual information is particularly important for guiding human hand actions.
“visual information is particularly important for guiding human hand actions [31], [32], [33], [34]”
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- Authors
- Castiello, U.
- Affiliations
- University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Castiello, Umberto
- ORCID
- Castiello, Umberto
- Venue
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience
- Published
- 2005-08-15
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 726-736
- ISSN
- 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0048
- OpenAlex
- W2082334970
- Cited by
- 621
- References
- 117
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- FWCI
- 1.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2005-10-01)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- grasping, hand motor control, sensorimotor integration, motor planning, object manipulation
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Biomechanical Phenomena, Brain, Hand, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neuropsychology, Neurosciences, Hand Strength, Positron-Emission Tomography
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