期刊
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 211, 期 1, 页码 161-167出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2635-x
关键词
Action observation; Grip force; Mirror system; Transcranial magnetic stimulation
资金
- Italian Ministry of Education
- E. C.
- Robot-cub
- Poeticon
- Programma di Ricerca Regione-Universita
- Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ferrara
Recent studies of corticospinal excitability during observation of grasping and lifting of objects of different weight have highlighted the role of agent's kinematics in modulating observer's motor excitability. Here, we investigate whether explicit weight-related information, provided by written labels on the objects, modulate the excitability of the observer's motor system and how this modulation is affected when there is a conflict between label and object's weight. We measured TMS-evoked motor potentials (MEPs) from right hand intrinsic muscles, while subjects were observing an actor lifting objects of different weights, in some trials labeled (heavy/light) in congruent or incongruent way. Results confirmed a weight-related modulation of MEPs based on kinematic cues. Interestingly, any conflict between the labels and the actual weight (i.e., explicit versus implicit information), although never consciously noticed by the observer, deeply affected the mirroring of others' actions. Our findings stress the automatic involvement of the mirror-neuron system.
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