Differential recruitment of the sensorimotor putamen and frontoparietal cortex during motor chunking in humans
Neuron, 2012•cell.com
Motor chunking facilitates movement production by combining motor elements into
integrated units of behavior. Previous research suggests that chunking involves two
processes: concatenation, aimed at the formation of motor-motor associations between
elements or sets of elements, and segmentation, aimed at the parsing of multiple contiguous
elements into shorter action sets. We used fMRI to measure the trial-wise recruitment of
brain regions associated with these chunking processes as healthy subjects performed a …
integrated units of behavior. Previous research suggests that chunking involves two
processes: concatenation, aimed at the formation of motor-motor associations between
elements or sets of elements, and segmentation, aimed at the parsing of multiple contiguous
elements into shorter action sets. We used fMRI to measure the trial-wise recruitment of
brain regions associated with these chunking processes as healthy subjects performed a …
Summary
Motor chunking facilitates movement production by combining motor elements into integrated units of behavior. Previous research suggests that chunking involves two processes: concatenation, aimed at the formation of motor-motor associations between elements or sets of elements, and segmentation, aimed at the parsing of multiple contiguous elements into shorter action sets. We used fMRI to measure the trial-wise recruitment of brain regions associated with these chunking processes as healthy subjects performed a cued-sequence production task. A dynamic network analysis identified chunking structure for a set of motor sequences acquired during fMRI and collected over 3 days of training. Activity in the bilateral sensorimotor putamen positively correlated with chunk concatenation, whereas a left-hemisphere frontoparietal network was correlated with chunk segmentation. Across subjects, there was an aggregate increase in chunk strength (concatenation) with training, suggesting that subcortical circuits play a direct role in the creation of fluid transitions across chunks.
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