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Control of action as mediated by the human frontal lobe
R J Seitz1, K M Stephan, F Binkofski
1Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany. seitz@neurologie.uni-duesseldorf.de
Experimental Brain Research
|August 10, 2000
Abstract:
Conscious control of action involves the voluntary initiation and the continuous adjustment of motor activity. Neuroimaging data provide evidence that the plan for a movement is developed with respect to the behavioral context in prefrontal cortex, while the synergies of a motor program are coded by premotor cortex and the specific movement parameters by the motor cortex. It is suggested that the initiational aspects of conscious motor activity are implemented in a medial system of information flow and the integrative aspects in a lateral system of the human frontal lobe.