Neural activity in human primary motor cortex areas 4a and 4p is modulated 
differentially by attention to action

Binkofski, F.; Fink, Gereon R.; Geyer, Stefan; Buccino, G.; Gruber, Oliver; Shah, N. Jon; Taylor, John G.; Seitz, Rüdiger J.; Zilles, Karl; Freund, Hans-Joachim

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Neural activity in human primary motor cortex areas 4a and 4p is modulated differentially by attention to action

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Gruber, Oliver
MPI of Cognitive Neuroscience (Leipzig, -2003), The Prior Institutes, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Binkofski, F., Fink, G. R., Geyer, S., Buccino, G., Gruber, O., Shah, N. J., et al. (2002). Neural activity in human primary motor cortex areas 4a and 4p is modulated differentially by attention to action. Journal of Neurophysiology, 88(1), 514-519.

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The mechanisms underlying attention to action are poorly understood. Although distracted by something else, we often maintain the accuracy of a movement, which suggests that differential neural mechanisms for the control of attended and nonattended action exist. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in normal volunteers and probabilistic cytoarchitectonic maps, we observed that neural activity in subarea 4p (posterior) within the primary motor cortex was modulated by attention to action, while neural activity in subarea 4a (anterior) was not. The data provide the direct evidence for differential neural mechanisms during attended and unattended action in human primary motor cortex.