Human brain activation accompanying explicitly directed movement sequence learning

被引:65
作者
Eliassen, JC
Souza, T
Sanes, JN
机构
[1] Brown Univ, Sch Med, Dept Neurosci, Providence, RI 02912 USA
[2] IRCCS, Fdn Santa Lucia, Lab Funct Neuroimaging, I-00179 Rome, Italy
关键词
motor learning; functional MRI; finger movements; brain plasticity; adaptation; human;
D O I
10.1007/s002210100822
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
We examined brain activation patterns occurring during the production and encoding of a motor sequence. Participants performed a variant of the serial reaction-time task under two conditions. The first condition was designed to foster the engagement of explicit mechanisms of knowledge acquisition. The second condition was intended to encourage the engagement of implicit learning mechanisms that would be more typical of the standard serial reaction-time task. In the first condition, the acquisition of explicit knowledge about an 8-element ordered sequence led to a significant and rapid decline in reaction time. By contrast, the second condition, the task in which a sequence was presented unbeknownst to participants, did not yield changes in reaction time. Several brain regions, including prefrontal cortex, superior and inferior parietal lobules, and cerebellum, exhibited explicit teaming-related activation. The prefrontal cortex and inferior parietal lobules increased their levels of activation between the beginning and end of the experiment, while primary motor, primary sensory, and cerebellar cortex decreased their levels of activation from the beginning to the end of the experiment. We propose a model in which two processes. a learning-related increase and a habituation process might interact to produce the activation patterns observed during movement sequence acquisition. In short, the prefrontal cortex and inferior parietal lobule together direct and recruit superior parietal lobule and cerebellum to encode and perform the sequence. The increased activation in prefrontal cortex and inferior parietal lobule may represent the activity of a working memory circuit that functions in the acquisition and recall of sequence information.
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页数:12
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