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Deborah J Serrien1, Richard B Ivry, Stephan P Swinnen

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Progress in Neurobiology
|April 3, 2007
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Neural regions for cognition are increasingly involved in motor tasks, especially complex ones. This highlights the brain

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Motor Control

Background:

  • Systems-level study of neural correlates of motor behavior is gaining attention.
  • Neural regions traditionally linked to cognition are recruited during motor tasks.
  • Action and cognition are often studied in isolation but show convergence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the convergence of neural regions involved in action and cognition.
  • To explore how complex motor skills reveal the link between action and cognition.
  • To examine the influence of external (e.g., feedback) and internal (e.g., pathology) factors.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of neural recruitment during complex motor tasks.
  • Examination of factors influencing action-cognition overlap.

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  • Focus on systems-level neuroscience approaches.

    • Main Results:

    • Emerging observation of cognitive neural regions being recruited for motor tasks.
    • Convergence is prominent in frontal lobe areas associated with response selection and monitoring.
    • Complex motor tasks, especially those involving sequencing and coordination, highlight this link.

    Conclusions:

    • Complex motor tasks are crucial for understanding the interplay between action and cognition.
    • Frontal lobe areas are key neural sites at the interface of action and cognition.
    • External and internal factors modulate the neural overlap between action and cognition.