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BRAIN AND COGNITION
Volume 50, Issue 1, Pages 1-16Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(02)00005-2
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motor imagery; body schema; parietal cortex; inhibition; movement control; anosognosia
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- NINDS NIH HHS [R01 NS37920-02] Funding Source: Medline
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We examined the nature of representations underlying motor imagery and execution in a patient (CW) with bilateral parietal lesions. When imagining hand movements, CW executed the imagined motor act but was unaware of the movements. These movements were significantly more accurate than volitional. movements for the left but not right hand. CW also exhibited preserved motor imagery for the left but not right hand. Consistent with previous accounts, these findings suggest that motor imagery may normally involve the inhibition of movements. CW's unawareness of movements during motor imagery may reflect inattention or misattribution of the unexpected sensory feedback. Furthermore, in line with current models of motor control, motor imagery may depend on the integrity of a forward model derived from motor outflow information to generate a prediction of the consequences of a motor command. Such predictions appear to be preserved for imagery of left but not right hand movements in CW. Action may additionally depend on. precise updating of effector position derived from the comparison of predicted and actual sensory information. We propose that CW's impaired volitional movements may be attributable to the degradation of such an updating mechanism. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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