Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROIMAGING
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 172-178Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2002.tb00116.x
Keywords
supplementary motor area; bimanual movement; functional imaging; motor control
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Several functional imaging studies have shown that the extent of activation and percentage change in cerebral blood flow in the supplementary motor area (SMA) during a bimanual mirror performance of a simple repetitive movement are almost identical to those during a unimanual movement, The aim of this study was to investigate whether this finding was also applicable to a more complex movement. Eight right-handed, healthy volunteers performed unimanually (with their right and left hands) and bimanually (in a mirror fashion) thumb-finger opposition in a nonconsecutive order (index-middle-index-ring-index-little-index-middle... fingers), The SMA proper was more activated during the bimanual movement than the unimanual movement with either hand. This is in accordance with the hypothesis that bimanual movement, even in a mirror fashion, is more difficult than unimanual movement when the task is complex but not when the task is simple. Pre-SMA was inconsistently activated. The results suggest that the SMA proper plays an active role in executive processing during bimanual mirror performance of complex movements.
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