The neurophysiology of continuous action monitoring

Wilken, Saskia; Böttcher, Adriana; Adelhöfer, Nico; Raab, Markus; Hoffmann, Sven; Beste, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.106939

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“…Following new insights into neural processes underlying continuous action monitoring (e.g., Wilken et al 2023 ), the results of our study may provide further insight into possible neural relationships between sensorimotor practice and motor cognition. Previous research has shown that the primary motor cortex (M1) exhibits activation patterns during time windows related to body-related mental rotation tasks (Perruchoud et al 2018 ).…”

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Embodied mental rotation ability in open- and closed-skill sports: pilot study with a new virtual paradigm

Geisen,

Raab,

Jansen

et al. 2024

Exp Brain Res

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Embodied mental rotation is the influence of the body on mental rotation ability. Sports expertise enhances embodied mental rotation ability. However, sport-skill-dependent effects remain unclear. Previous studies refer to the influence of body positions on mental rotation ability. Yet, in sports, the investigation of the effect of simultaneous body and mental rotation movements is essential. Athletes need to constantly mentally and physically adapt to environmental changes and new motor tasks while being in motion themselves. This study aimed to investigate embodied mental rotation ability with simultaneous body and mental rotation in individuals with different sport skills, i.e., in open- and closed-skill sports. Forty-eight men and women, divided into two groups depending on their sport, performed 32 trials of an extended embodied mental rotation task. Simultaneous body and mental rotation were enabled by a novel test method including Virtual Reality. Results revealed shorter response times to the task stimulus in closed-skill sports participants than in open-skill sports participants. This group difference was significant for trials in which rotation directions of the own body and the mental rotation stimulus were aligned. The results might be related to sport-specific skill development processes. Motor imitation skills, as relevant in many closed-skill sports, may facilitate cognitive processes when the motion direction of the own body and of the mental rotation stimulus are aligned. The novel test method identifies potential applications that should be increasingly explored in the future, both for cognitive science and sports research.

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confidence: 57%

Embodied mental rotation ability in open- and closed-skill sports: pilot study with a new virtual paradigm

Geisen,

Raab,

Jansen

et al. 2024

Exp Brain Res

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“…The AMS has been described extensively for its role in the control of executed actions, and has been also associated to the detection of sudden and/or unexpected changes in the individual actions or in those of others (e.g., a change in the trajectory of an observed movement; (De Bruijn et al, 2007;Malfait et al, 2010;Miltner et al, 2004;Moreau et al, 2020Moreau et al, , 2022Shane et al, 2008;Spinelli et al, 2018;van Schie et al, 2004). This system is involved in a constant process of prediction and adaptation (Ullsperger, 2017;Ullsperger et al, 2014;Wilken et al, 2023) and comprises the posterior part of the medial frontal cortex (pMFC), specifically the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), the pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA) and the adjacent dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPF, (Nee et al, 2011;Ridderinkhof et al, 2004). Although these areas often show complex and overlapping patterns of activation, the ACC is considered to be the central hub of the action monitoring system and one of the main sources of the electrocortical indices of action monitoring.…”

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The bodily appearance of a virtual partner affects the activity of the action observation and action monitoring systems in a minimally interactive task

Pesci,

Moreau,

Era

et al. 2024

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SummaryOne pending question in social neuroscience is whether interpersonal interactions are processed differently by the brain depending on the bodily characteristics of the interactor, i.e., their physical appearance. To address this issue, we engaged participants in a minimally interactive task with an avatar either showing bodily features or not while recording their brain activity using Electroencephalography (EEG) in order to investigate indices of action observation and action monitoring processing. Multivariate results showed that bodily compared to non-bodily appearance modulated parieto-occipital neural patterns throughout the entire duration of the observed movement and that, importantly, such patterns differ from the ones related to initial shape processing. Furthermore, among the electrocortical indices of action monitoring, only the early observational Positivity (oPe) was responsive to the bodily appearance of the observed agent under the specific task requirement to predict the partner movement. Taken together, these findings broaden the understanding of how bodily appearance shapes the spatiotemporal processing of an interactor’s movements. This holds particular relevance in our modern society, where human-virtual agent interactions are rapidly becoming ubiquitous.

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