Distinct neural correlates underlying two- and three-dimensional mental rotations using three-dimensional objects

Kawamichi, Hozumi; Kikuchi, Yoshihiro; Noriuchi, Madoka; Senoo, Atsushi; Ueno, S.

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2007.01.082

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“…Both OBTtasks led to strong bilateral activation of parietal cortex. This is concordant with activations at this site observed in most studies investigating the neural correlates of mental imagery of bodily stimuli (Bonda et al 1995;Kosslyn et al 1998;Zacks et al 1999;Creem et al 2001;de Jong et al 2001;Lenggenhager et al 2006), but also non-corporeal objects (Pegna et al 1997;Harris and Miniussi 2003;Vingerhoets et al 2001;Alivisatos and Petrides 1997;Carpenter et al 1999;Kawamichi et al 2007).…”

Section: Parietal Cortexsupporting

confidence: 89%

Mental Imagery for Full and Upper Human Bodies: Common Right Hemisphere Activations and Distinct Extrastriate Activations

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The processing of human bodies is important in social life and for the recognition of another person's actions, moods, and intentions. Recent neuroimaging studies on mental imagery of human body parts suggest that the left hemisphere is dominant in body processing. However, studies on mental imagery of full human bodies reported stronger right hemisphere or bilateral activations. Here, we measured functional magnetic resonance imaging during mental imagery of bilateral partial (upper) and full bodies. Results show that, independently of whether a full or upper body is processed, the right hemisphere (temporoparietal cortex, anterior parietal cortex, premotor cortex, bilateral superior parietal cortex) is mainly involved in mental imagery of full or partial human bodies. However, distinct activations were found in extrastriate cortex for partial bodies (right fusiform face area) and full bodies (left extrastriate body area). We propose that a common brain network, mainly on the right side, is involved in the mental imagery of human bodies, while two distinct brain areas in extrastriate cortex code for mental imagery of full and upper bodies.

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Section: Parietal Cortexsupporting

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Mental Imagery for Full and Upper Human Bodies: Common Right Hemisphere Activations and Distinct Extrastriate Activations

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“…2) increased linearly with increasing amount of mental rotation, during both implicit and explicit motor imagery, for the affected as well as for the unaffected limb. This same parieto-premotor network has also been isolated in earlier studies using similar imagery paradigms (de Lange et al, 2005;Ecker et al, 2006;Johnson et al, 2002a;Kawamichi et al, 2007;Lamm et al, 2007;Richter et al, 2000), as well as during the selection and preparation of actual hand movements (Rushworth et al, 2003;Thoenissen et al, 2002;Toni et al, 1999). The matched contribution of these motor regions to implicit and explicit imagery suggests that both tasks evoked motor simulation of hand actions to a similar degree, and that, as far as the motor system is concerned, explicit and implicit motor imagery were indistinguishable.…”

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confidence: 52%

“…Neuroimaging methods with higher spatial resolution (like fMRI) have, however, been divided on the issue. While several studies have observed (attenuated) M1 activity during imagery (Dechent et al, 2004;Lacourse et al, 2005;Lotze et al, 1999;Porro et al, 1996;Rodriguez et al, 2004) other studies did not find any M1 activation as a function of imagery, but only M1 activity related to the actual motor response at the end of a trial (de Lange et al, 2005;Richter et al, 2000). Possibly, a host of factors like paradigm choice (e.g., implicit or explicit, simple or complex movements), and subject instructions may contribute to whether or not M1 plays a role during motor imagery (Lotze and Halsband, 2006).…”

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Motor imagery: A window into the mechanisms and alterations of the motor system

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Roelofs

Toni

2008

Cortex

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Explicit motor imagery Conversion paralysis fMRI Mental rotation a b s t r a c tMotor imagery is a widely used paradigm for the study of cognitive aspects of action control, both in the healthy and the pathological brain. In this paper we review how motor imagery research has advanced our knowledge of behavioral and neural aspects of action control, both in healthy subjects and clinical populations. Furthermore, we will illustrate how motor imagery can provide new insights in a poorly understood psychopathological condition: conversion paralysis (CP). We measured behavioral and cerebral responses with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in seven CP patients with a lateralized paresis of the arm as they imagined moving the affected or the unaffected hand. Imagined actions were either implicitly induced by the task requirements, or explicitly instructed through verbal instructions. We previously showed that implicitly induced motor imagery of the affected limb leads to larger ventromedial prefrontal responses compared to motor imagery of the unaffected limb. We interpreted this effect in terms of greater self-monitoring of actions during motor imagery of the affected limb. Here, we report new data in support of this interpretation: inducing self-monitoring of actions of both the affected and the unaffected limb (by means of explicitly cued motor imagery) abolishes the activation difference between the affected and the unaffected hand in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Our results show that although implicit and explicit motor imagery both entail motor simulations, they differ in terms of the amount of action monitoring they induce. The IntroductionMotor imagery is a familiar aspect of most people's everyday experience. It is important for learning complex motor skills like sports (Murphy, 1994), as well as re-learning motor skills in neurological populations (Dijkerman et al., 2004;. The potential of motor imagery in clinical applications is broad, ranging from Brain-Computer interfacing (Pfurtscheller and Neuper, 2006)

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“…In the case of visual stimuli with a three-dimensional (3D) object, during 3D rotation higher activities are observed from 200 to 300 ms in the left dorsal premotor (PMd), and from 400 to 700 ms in the right PMd [Kawamichi et al, 2004[Kawamichi et al, , 2007a. These results suggest that the left PMd is related to primary motor control, whereas the right PMd plays a supplementary role during mental stimulation.…”

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Studies on magnetism and bioelectromagnetics for 45 years: From magnetic analog memory to human brain stimulation and imaging

Ueno

2011

Bioelectromagnetics

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Forty-five years of studies on magnetism and bioelectromagnetics, in our laboratory, are presented. This article is prepared for the d'Arsonval Award Lecture. After a short introduction of our early work on magnetic analog memory, we review and discuss the following topics: (1) Magnetic nerve stimulation and localized transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the human brain by figure-eight coils; (2) Measurements of weak magnetic fields generated from the brain by superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) systems, called magnetoencephalography (MEG), and its application in functional brain studies; (3) New methods of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the imaging of impedance of the brain, called impedance MRI, and the imaging of neuronal current activities in the brain, called current MRI; (4) Cancer therapy and other medical treatments by pulsed magnetic fields; (5) Effects of static magnetic fields and magnetic control of cell orientation and cell growth; and (6) Effects of radio frequency magnetic fields and control of iron ion release and uptake from and into ferritins, iron cage proteins. These bioelectromagnetic studies have opened new horizons in magnetism and medicine, in particular for brain research and treatment of ailments such as depression, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's diseases.

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Distinct neural correlates underlying two- and three-dimensional mental rotations using three-dimensional objects

Cited by 40 publications

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Mental Imagery for Full and Upper Human Bodies: Common Right Hemisphere Activations and Distinct Extrastriate Activations

Mental Imagery for Full and Upper Human Bodies: Common Right Hemisphere Activations and Distinct Extrastriate Activations

Motor imagery: A window into the mechanisms and alterations of the motor system

Studies on magnetism and bioelectromagnetics for 45 years: From magnetic analog memory to human brain stimulation and imaging

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