Visuomotor priming of a manual reaching movement during a perceptual decision task

Embodied Cognition over the Lifespan and in Applied Settings

“…This effect corresponds to the classical SRC effect and was observed for the µ parameter (mean performance) but not for the σ (performance variability) and τ (asymmetry in the distribution) parameters of the ex-Gaussian distribution of RT distribution. However, the group analysis revealed that this pattern of results was affected by children age as only the 11years children showed the typical pattern of SRC effect usually observed in adults (Tucker and Ellis, 2001;Olivier, 2006;Buetti and Kerzel, 2008;Coutte et al, 2015). SRC effect seems thus to appear at a specific period of children development, with a shift in the performance occurring between 8 and 11 years, as suggested by the data on RT (we indeed observed a trend toward significant effect for 10-years-old children).…”

“…Accordingly, SRC effect does not depend of the relevant or irrelevant nature of the stimulus-response features in relation to the task, but simply the presence of an overlap between perceptual and motor dimensions (Kornblum, 1994;Hommel, 1997). In agreement with this, SRC effect is not restricted to the right-left dichotomy and several studies have shown that the effect can be extended to the near-far (e.g., Olivier, 2006;Coutte et al, 2015) as well as the up-down (e.g., Cho and Proctor, 2002;Meiran, 2005) spatial dimensions. Furthermore, SRC effect is thought to affect response selection as well as the subsequent programming and execution stages of motor responses Kerzel, 2008, 2009;Coutte et al, 2015).…”

Stimulus-Response Compatibility Effect in the Near-Far Dimension: A Developmental Study

“…Accordingly, SRC effect does not depend of the relevant or irrelevant nature of the stimulus-response features in relation to the task, but simply the presence of an overlap between perceptual and motor dimensions ( Kornblum, 1994 ; Hommel, 1997 ). In agreement with this, SRC effect is not restricted to the right-left dichotomy and several studies have shown that the effect can be extended to the near-far (e.g., Olivier, 2006 ; Coutte et al, 2015 ) as well as the up-down (e.g., Cho and Proctor, 2002 ; Meiran, 2005 ) spatial dimensions. Furthermore, SRC effect is thought to affect response selection as well as the subsequent programming and execution stages of motor responses ( Buetti and Kerzel, 2008 , 2009 ; Coutte et al, 2015 ).…”

“…This effect corresponds to the classical SRC effect and was observed for the μ parameter (mean performance) but not for the σ (performance variability) and τ (asymmetry in the distribution) parameters of the ex-Gaussian distribution of RT distribution. However, the group analysis revealed that this pattern of results was affected by children age as only the 11-years children showed the typical pattern of SRC effect usually observed in adults ( Tucker and Ellis, 2001 ; Olivier, 2006 ; Buetti and Kerzel, 2008 ; Coutte et al, 2015 ). SRC effect seems thus to appear at a specific period of children development, with a shift in the performance occurring between 8 and 11 years, as suggested by the data on RT (we indeed observed a trend toward significant effect for 10-years-old children).…”

Precision grasping in humans: from motor control to cognition

“…Indeed, several monkey studies showed that the hand motor system is activated not only during action execution but also during observation of graspable objects (canonical neurons, [48]), without movement execution, as well as during observation of other individuals performing grasp movements similar to those they encode during active grasp (mirror neurons [49], see also reference [50]). In humans, the sensitivity of motor-related areas to the observation of manipulable objects has been shown by both functional neuroimaging studies [6, 51,52] and behavioural experiments (visuomotor priming, [53][54][55]). Similarly, the existence of a human mirror-neuron system during grasp-ing observation finds its experimental support in TMS experiments, demonstrating that the corticospinal system becomes facilitated during observation of others' actions (for a review see reference [56]), and in brain imaging data, showing that the observation of grasping acts performed by other individuals activates a set of cortical areas recruited during the execution of grasping movements (see reference [50] for a review).…”