Differential recruitment of the sensorimotor putamen and frontoparietal cortex during motor chunking in humans

NF Wymbs, DS Bassett, PJ Mucha, MA Porter… - Neuron, 2012 - cell.com
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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 …
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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