Different constraints on grip selection in brain-damaged patients: Object use versus object transport

Osiurak, François; Aubin, Ghislaine; Allain, Philippe; Jarry, Christophe; Etcharry-Bouyx, Frédérique; Richard, Isabelle; Gall, Didier Le

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.03.018

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“…Goal postures can be planned first but subsequent movement planning can feed back to the goal posture level, leading to a different goal posture if necessary. Consistent with this hypothesis, movement paths can influence choices of goal postures (Elsinger & Rosenbaum, 2003; Osiurak et al, 2008). …”

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Cognition, action, and object manipulation.

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Although psychology is the science of mental life and behavior, it has paid little attention to the means by which mental life is translated into behavior. One domain where links between cognition and action have been explored is the manipulation of objects. This article reviews psychological research on this topic, with special emphasis on the tendency to grasp objects differently depending on what one plans to do with the objects. Such differential grasping has been demonstrated in a wide range of object manipulation tasks, including grasping an object in a way that reveals anticipation of the object's future orientation, height, and required placement precision. Differential grasping has also been demonstrated in a wide range of behaviors, including one-hand grasps, two-hand grasps, walking, and transferring objects from place to place as well as from person to person. The populations in whom the tendency has been shown are also diverse, including nonhuman primates as well as human adults, children, and babies. Meanwhile, the tendency is compromised in a variety of clinical populations and in children of a surprisingly advanced age. Verbal working memory is compromised as well if words are memorized while object manipulation tasks are performed; the recency portion of the serial position curve is reduced in this circumstance. In general, the research reviewed here points to rich connections between cognition and action as revealed through the study of object manipulation. Other implications concern affordances, Donders' Law, and naturalistic observation and the teaching of psychology.

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Cognition, action, and object manipulation.

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Psychological Bulletin

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“…Behavioral research has provided support for a left hemisphere dominance in the motor planning of end-state comfort effects in right and left handers (Janssen et al, 2011). It remains a matter of debate whether the planning of reach and grasp actions for object use versus object transport are guided by different mechanisms (Osiurak et al, 2008). In addition to reach-and-grasp planning, we also must recall and apply the appropriate object-related movements to achieve the planned goal.…”

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Contribution of the posterior parietal cortex in reaching, grasping, and using objects and tools

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Neuropsychological and neuroimaging data suggest a differential contribution of posterior parietal regions during the different components of a transitive gesture. Reaching requires the integration of object location and body position coordinates and reaching tasks elicit bilateral activation in different foci along the intraparietal sulcus. Grasping requires a visuomotor match between the object's shape and the hand's posture. Lesion studies and neuroimaging confirm the importance of the anterior part of the intraparietal sulcus for human grasping. Reaching and grasping reveal bilateral activation that is generally more prominent on the side contralateral to the hand used or the hemifield stimulated. Purposeful behavior with objects and tools can be assessed in a variety of ways, including actual use, pantomimed use, and pure imagery of manipulation. All tasks have been shown to elicit robust activation over the left parietal cortex in neuroimaging, but lesion studies have not always confirmed these findings. Compared to pantomimed or imagined gestures, actual object and tool use typically produces activation over the left primary somatosensory region. Neuroimaging studies on pantomiming or imagery of tool use in healthy volunteers revealed neural responses in possibly separate foci in the left supramarginal gyrus. In sum, the parietal contribution of reaching and grasping of objects seems to depend on a bilateral network of intraparietal foci that appear organized along gradients of sensory and effector preferences. Dorsal and medial parietal cortex appears to contribute to the online monitoring/adjusting of the ongoing prehensile action, whereas the functional use of objects and tools seems to involve the inferior lateral parietal cortex. This functional input reveals a clear left lateralized activation pattern that may be tuned to the integration of acquired knowledge in the planning and guidance of the transitive movement.

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“…This is less comfortable than grasping them with non inverted hand but leads without detour to the optimal hand position for use. When, however, the purpose of grasping is transport rather than use of the tool most subjects grasp with the noninverted hand . As we discussed in the previous section for the pantomime of grasping a glass, the adaptation of grip to the structural properties of the grasped object is accomplished by visuo‐motor mechanisms that are not affected by apraxia.…”

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“…They did indeed demonstrate that some patients with left brain damage grasp tools pointing toward them with noninverted hands even when they are instructed to demonstrate their use but there is no clear relationship between this lack of motor planning and apraxia for tool use. A majority of patients who commit errors of tool use nonetheless adapt their grip to the orientation of the tool while on the other hand there are patients who disregard subsequent use for grip selection but succeeded in demonstrating correct use of the awkwardly grasped tools . Moreover, lesion analysis revealed that different left hemisphere lesions were responsible for selection of grips and for correct use …”

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