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Role of the human anterior cingulate cortex in the control of oculomotor, manual, and speech responses: a positron emission tomography study

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Paus, T., Petrides, M., Evans, A. C., Meyer, E.·1993·Journal of Neurophysiology

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1. Two experiments were aimed at investigating the functional organization of the human anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in relation to higher-order motor control. 2. The 15O-labeled H2O bolus method was used to measure relative changes of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in 18 healthy human subjects as they performed oculomotor, manual, or speech tasks. 3. Task-specific rCBF changes were obtained in distinct subregions of the ACC, depending on the output system employed. The oculomotor and the manual task-related foci were found in the rostral and caudal regions of the ACC, respectively, whereas the speech foci were localized within two cingulate subregions, the intermediate dorsal and the rostral ACC. 4. In the manual tasks, two groups of activation foci could be distinguished, one just behind and the other just in front of the vertical plane traversing the anterior commissure. 5. The above pattern of rCBF changes was observed only if there was concomitant activation within the lateral prefrontal cortex (except for the posterior group of foci obtained in the manual tasks). 6. The localization of output-specific rCBF changes within the human ACC is consistent with the known somatotopic organization of the cingulate cortex in the monkey. 7. It is tentatively proposed that the ACC participates in motor control by facilitating the execution of the appropriate responses and/or suppressing the execution of the inappropriate ones. Such a modulatory effect would be of particular importance when behavior has to be modified in new and challenging situations.

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Authors
Paus, T., Petrides, M., Evans, A. C., & Meyer, E.
Affiliations
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (CA)
Venue
Journal of Neurophysiology
Published
1993-08-01
Volume
70
Issue
2
Pages
453-469
ISSN
  • 0022-3077 (ISSN-L)
  • 1522-1598
OpenAlex
W1948090175
Cited by
834
References
52
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FWCI
17.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Neurophysiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Medical Research Council
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Keywords
anterior cingulate cortex, oculomotor tasks, manual tasks, speech production, regional cerebral blood flow, somatotopic organization, lateral prefrontal cortex, response modulation
MeSH terms
Adult, Attention, Brain Mapping, Dominance, Cerebral, Evoked Potentials, Eye Movements, Female, Gyrus Cinguli, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Reference Values, Regional Blood Flow, Saccades, Speech Perception, Tomography, Emission-Computed, Verbal Behavior, Prefrontal Cortex

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