Autonomic nervous system correlates in movement observation and motor imagery

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作者
Collet, C. [1 ]
Di Rienzo, F. [1 ]
El Hoyek, N. [1 ]
Guillot, A. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lyon 1, EA CRIS 647, Mental Proc & Motor Performance Lab, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[2] Inst Univ France, Paris, France
关键词
motor imagery; movement observation; autonomic nervous system activity; HEART-RATE-VARIABILITY; SYMPATHETIC SKIN-RESPONSE; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX; CARDIAC VAGAL TONE; IMAGINED MOVEMENTS; MENTAL-IMAGERY; NEUROVISCERAL INTEGRATION; COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; DIFFERENTIAL CONTROL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;
D O I
10.3389/fnhum.2013.00415
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 [神经生物学];
摘要
The purpose of the current article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the literature offering a better understanding of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) correlates in motor imagery (MI) and movement observation. These are two high brain functions involving sensori-motor coupling, mediated by memory systems. How observing or mentally rehearsing a movement affect ANS activity has not been extensively investigated. The links between cognitive functions and ANS responses are not so obvious. We will first describe the organization of the ANS whose main purposes are controlling vital functions by maintaining the homeostasis of the organism and providing adaptive responses when changes occur either in the external or internal milieu. We will then review how scientific knowledge evolved, thus integrating recent findings related to ANS functioning, and show how these are linked to mental functions. In turn, we will describe how movement observation or MI may elicit physiological responses at the peripheral level of the autonomic effectors, thus eliciting autonomic correlates to cognitive activity. Key features of this paper are to draw a step-by step progression from the understanding of ANS physiology to its relationships with high mental processes such as movement observation or MI. We will further provide evidence that mental processes are co-programmed both at the somatic and autonomic levels of the central nervous system (CNS). We will thus detail how peripheral physiological responses may be analyzed to provide objective evidence that MI is actually performed. The main perspective is thus to consider that, during movement observation and MI, ANS activity is an objective witness of mental processes.
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