期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 19, 期 10, 页码 2352-2360出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn252
关键词
action selection; event-related potential; motor preparation; voluntary action
资金
- Medical Research Council PhD Studentship
- Wellcome Trust
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Royal Society Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship
- ESRC [RES-000-23-1571] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-23-1571] Funding Source: researchfish
The neural mechanisms underlying the selection and initiation of voluntary actions in the absence of external instructions are poorly understood. These mechanisms are usually investigated using a paradigm where different movement choices are self-generated by a participant on each trial. These free choices are compared with instructed choices, in which a stimulus informs subjects which action to make on each trial. Here, we introduce a novel paradigm to investigate these modes of action selection, by measuring brain processes evoked by an instruction to either reverse or maintain free and instructed choices in the period before a go signal. An unpredictable instruction to change a response plan had different effects on free and instructed choices. In instructed trials, change cues evoked a larger P300 than no-change cues, leading to a significant interaction of choice and change condition. Free-choice trials displayed a trend toward the opposite pattern. These results suggest a difference between updating of free and instructed action choices. We propose a theoretical framework for internally generated action in which representations of alternative actions remain available until a late stage in motor preparation. This framework emphasizes the high modifiability of voluntary action.
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