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| Title |
Body-Specific Motor Imagery of Hand Actions: Neural Evidence from Right- and Left-Handers
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, November 2009
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| DOI | 10.3389/neuro.09.039.2009 |
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| Authors |
Roel M. Willems, Ivan Toni, Peter Hagoort, Daniel Casasanto |
| Abstract |
If motor imagery uses neural structures involved in action execution, then the neural correlates of imagining an action should differ between individuals who tend to execute the action differently. Here we report fMRI data showing that motor imagery is influenced by the way people habitually perform motor actions with their particular bodies; that is, motor imagery is 'body-specific' (Casasanto, 2009). During mental imagery for complex hand actions, activation of cortical areas involved in motor planning and execution was left-lateralized in right-handers but right-lateralized in left-handers. We conclude that motor imagery involves the generation of an action plan that is grounded in the participant's motor habits, not just an abstract representation at the level of the action's goal. People with different patterns of motor experience form correspondingly different neurocognitive representations of imagined actions. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
| Brazil | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 197 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 3% |
| Germany | 4 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 4 | 2% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 180 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 44 | 22% |
| Researcher | 35 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 10% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 39 | 20% |
| Unknown | 27 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 78 | 40% |
| Linguistics | 14 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 13 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 35 | 18% |
| Unknown | 35 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 November 2018.
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#3,222,163
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Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#1,518
of 7,685 outputs
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#11,646
of 106,875 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#4
of 14 outputs
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