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Methods to Explore the Influence of Top-down Visual Processes on Motor Behavior
Published on: April 16, 2014
Decoupling motor plans from perceptual decisions to investigate whether and when decisions are embodied
1NATBRAINLAB - Neuroanatomy and Tractography Brain Laboratory, Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom stefano.sandrone@kcl.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Decision making is a crucial part of our life: we sense information from the environment and perform our motor response. However, "whether" and "when" decisions are embodied still needs to be fully elucidated. Neuroimaging data obtained by the disentanglement of perceptual decision from motor preparation revealed an increase in connectivity between inferior frontal cortex and sensory regions, and the important role played by intraparietal sulcus in motor decisions. The results obtained as well as the new research questions prompted by this work are carefully discussed herein.
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