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CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 118, Issue 9, Pages 2031-2049Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.06.003
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motor preparation; electroencephalography; event-related brain potentials; premotor cortex; parietal cortex; attention
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- Wellcome Trust [072524] Funding Source: Medline
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Objective: The present study investigated whether lateralized ERP components triggered during covert manual response preparation (ADAN, LDAP) reflect effector selection, the selection of movement direction, or both. Methods: Event-related brain potentials were recorded during a response precueing paradigm where visual cues provided either partial (Experiment 1) or full (Experiment 2) information about the response hand and the direction for a subsequent reaching movement. Results: ADAN and LDAP components were elicited even when only partial response information was available, demonstrating that they do not require the presence of a fully specified motor program. The ADAN was elicited in a similar fashion regardless of whether effector or movement direction information was provided, suggesting that the underlying mechanisms are equally sensitive to both types of response-related information. In contrast, the LDAP was larger in response to cues providing effector information, but was also reliably present when movement direction was available. Conclusions: ADAN and LDAP components reflect preparatory activity within anterior and posterior parts of the parieto-premotor sensorimotor network where different parameters for manual reaching movements are programmed independently. Significance: These results support the claim of the premotor theory of attention that shared sensorimotor control mechanisms are involved in attention and motor programming. (C) 2007 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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