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  Action prediction in younger versus older adults: Neural correlates of motor familiarity

Diersch, N., Mueller, K., Cross, E. S., Stadler, W., Rieger, M., & Schütz-Bosbach, S. (2013). Action prediction in younger versus older adults: Neural correlates of motor familiarity. PLoS One, 8(5): e64195. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064195.

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Diersch, Nadine1, 2, Author           
Mueller, Karsten3, Author           
Cross, Emily S.4, 5, Author           
Stadler, Waltraud6, Author           
Rieger, Martina7, Author           
Schütz-Bosbach, Simone1, Author           
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1Max Planck Research Group Body and Self, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society, ou_634554              
2MaxNetAging Research School, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, ou_persistent22              
3Methods and Development Unit Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society, ou_634558              
4Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Bangor University, United Kingdom, ou_persistent22              
5Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, ou_persistent22              
6Movement Science Unit, Department of Sport and Health Science, TU Munich, Germany, ou_persistent22              
7Medical Sciences and Management Department, The Health and Life Sciences University, Hall in Tirol, Austria, ou_persistent22              

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 Abstract: Generating predictions during action observation is essential for efficient navigation through our social environment. With age, the sensitivity in action prediction declines. In younger adults, the action observation network (AON), consisting of premotor, parietal and occipitotemporal cortices, has been implicated in transforming executed and observed actions into a common code. Much less is known about age-related changes in the neural representation of observed actions. Using fMRI, the present study measured brain activity in younger and older adults during the prediction of temporarily occluded actions (figure skating elements and simple movement exercises). All participants were highly familiar with the movement exercises whereas only some participants were experienced figure skaters. With respect to the AON, the results confirm that this network was preferentially engaged for the more familiar movement exercises. Compared to younger adults, older adults recruited visual regions to perform the task and, additionally, the hippocampus and caudate when the observed actions were familiar to them. Thus, instead of effectively exploiting the sensorimotor matching properties of the AON, older adults seemed to rely predominantly on the visual dynamics of the observed actions to perform the task. Our data further suggest that the caudate played an important role during the prediction of the less familiar figure skating elements in better-performing groups. Together, these findings show that action prediction engages a distributed network in the brain, which is modulated by the content of the observed actions and the age and experience of the observer.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2012-11-202013-04-122013-05-21
 Publication Status: Published online
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064195
PMID: 23704980
PMC: PMC3660406
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 8 (5) Sequence Number: e64195 Start / End Page: - Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/1000000000277850