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Spatiotemporal brain mapping during preparation, perception, and action.

Francesco Di Russo¹, Giuliana Lucci², Valentina Sulpizio²

¹Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome 00135, Italy; IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome 00179, Italy.

|November 27, 2015

Summary

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Proactive control, crucial for deciding when to act, originates in the inferior frontal gyrus before stimulus perception. This anticipatory mechanism is released upon stimulus appearance, guiding action decisions.

Keywords:

EEG Go/no-go Perceptual decision Prefrontal cortex Proactive control fMRI

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Neurophysiology

Background:

Deciding whether to act or not is a fundamental cognitive function.
Proactive control mechanisms, deployed before a response is needed, are poorly understood.
Understanding proactive control is key to avoiding incorrect responses.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the brain localization and timing of anticipatory proactive control mechanisms.
To elucidate the neural basis of proactive decision-making.

Main Methods:

Combined electrophysiological and neuroimaging measures.
Participant data collected from 21 (electrophysiology) and 16 (neuroimaging) individuals.

Main Results:

Proactive control originates in the inferior frontal gyrus.
Neural activity for proactive control is established before stimulus perception.
Stimulus perception activates the anterior insula and intraparietal cortex.

Conclusions:

Proactive control is initiated in the inferior frontal gyrus well before stimulus onset.
The anterior insula and intraparietal cortex mediate the perception-action transition.
A three-stage model encompassing perception, action, and anticipatory functions is proposed.