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Response selection versus feedback analysis in conditional visuo-motor learning.

C Amiez1, F Hadj-Bouziane, M Petrides

  • 1Montreal Neurological Institute, Neuropsychology/Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Rm 276, McGill University, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4. celine.amiez@inserm.fr

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging

Background:

  • Conditional associative sensori-motor learning relies on the fronto-striatal system.
  • The precise roles of fronto-striatal components in this learning remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the specific roles of fronto-striatal system components in conditional sensori-motor learning.
  • To dissociate neuronal substrates for response selection versus feedback analysis during learning.

Main Methods:

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) in human subjects.
  • An experimental paradigm to learn arbitrary visual stimuli-motor response associations.
  • Trial-and-error learning to analyze neural activity during distinct learning phases.

Main Results:

  • The dorsal premotor (PMd) cortex is critical for acquiring and executing arbitrary visual-motor mappings.
  • A shift in brain activation was observed from cognitive (caudate, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, PMd) to motor (putamen, PMd) fronto-striatal networks.
  • Anterior cingulate and orbitofrontal cortices showed increased activity during feedback processing, not response selection.

Conclusions:

  • Conditional visuo-motor learning is critically regulated by the dorsal premotor cortex and striatum.
  • Specific limbic frontal regions are involved in processing action consequences (feedback).
  • Distinct brain networks support different stages of sensori-motor learning and performance.