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A distributed left hemisphere network active during planning of everyday tool use skills

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Johnson-Frey, Scott H., Newman-Norlund, Roger, Grafton, Scott T.·2005·Cerebral Cortex

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Determining the relationship between mechanisms involved in action planning and/or execution is critical to understanding the neural bases of skilled behaviors, including tool use. Here we report findings from two fMRI studies of healthy, right-handed adults in which an event-related design was used to distinguish regions involved in planning (i.e. identifying, retrieving and preparing actions associated with a familiar tools' uses) versus executing tool use gestures with the dominant right (experiment 1) and non-dominant left (experiment 2) hands. For either limb, planning tool use actions activates a distributed network in the left cerebral hemisphere consisting of: (i) posterior superior temporal sulcus, along with proximal regions of the middle and superior temporal gyri; (ii) inferior frontal and ventral premotor cortices; (iii) two distinct parietal areas, one located in the anterior supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and another in posterior SMG and angular gyrus; and (iv) dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLFPC). With the exception of left DLFPC, adjacent and partially overlapping sub-regions of left parietal, frontal and temporal cortex are also engaged during action execution. We suggest that this left lateralized network constitutes a neural substrate for the interaction of semantic and motoric representations upon which meaningful skills depend.

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  • The localization of STG, angular gyrus, (pre)SMA and DLPFC activation overlaps with activations found in a study of planning everyday tool use.

    “Intriguingly, the localization of STG, angular gyrus, (pre)SMA and DLPFC activation overlaps with activations found in a study about planning of everyday tool use (Johnson-Frey et al., 2005).”

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  • By simulating motor, somatosensory and language processes through imagination of scenes and congruent verbalization, pre-motor areas, angular gyrus and STG may initiate reenacting of an emotional scene, representing execution of regulation.

    “By simulating motor, somatosensory and language processes via imagination of scenes and congruent verbalization, pre-motor areas, angular gyrus and STG may initiate a reenacting of an emotional scene (Johnson-Frey et al., 2005; Niedenthal, 2007), which represents the execution of regulation (C).”

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Authors
Johnson-Frey, S. H., Newman-Norlund, R., & Grafton, S. T.
Affiliations
  • University of Oregon (US)
  • Dartmouth College (US)
Corresponding author
Johnson-Frey, Scott H.
Venue
Cerebral Cortex
Published
2004-09-01
Volume
15
Issue
6
Pages
681-695
ISSN
  • 1047-3211 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-2199
OpenAlex
W2152670257
Cited by
558
References
99
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FWCI
10.92
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Cerebral Cortex (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • James S. McDonnell Foundation
  • National Institute of Mental Health (K01MH002022)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS033504)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Keywords
tool use, action planning, action execution, left hemisphere, posterior superior temporal sulcus, ventral premotor cortex, inferior frontal cortex, supramarginal gyrus, angular gyrus, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, handedness
MeSH terms
Adult, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Dominance, Cerebral, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motor Skills, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe

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