Juggling with the brain - thought and action in the human motor system

Wolfensteller, Uta

doi:10.1016/S0079-6123(09)01323-5

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Juggling with the brain - thought and action in the human motor system

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Wolfensteller, Uta
Department Cognitive Neurology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Wolfensteller, U. (2008). Juggling with the brain - thought and action in the human motor system. Progress in Brain Research, 174, 289-301. doi:10.1016/S0079-6123(09)01323-5.

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Empirical findings from various research fields indicate that cognitive and motor processes are far less dissimilar than previously thought. The present chapter takes a neuroscientific perspective and offers evidence for similarities between cognition and action focusing on three key players of the classical motor system: the primary motor cortex, the cerebellum, and the premotor cortex. Briefly, although movement execution is apparently supported in part by the same cerebral resources engaged in cognitive processes, the three brain regions reviewed here are differentially engaged in more or less action-bound cognitive processes. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.