| Modality-specific cognitive function of medial and lateral human Brodmann area 6. | |
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PMID: 15647494 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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Despite the fact that human Brodmann area 6 (BA6), a traditional "motor" area, is active during higher motor control involving various cognitive operations, the functional specialization within BA6 in the cognitive domain is essentially unknown. Furthermore, its functional relevance in cognition has been questioned because brain activity in BA6 during cognitive tasks has often been explained away as a concomitant, latent motor process. Therefore, we examined the structural-functional relationship of human BA6 in nonmotor cognitive functions and its functional relevance using both functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). Subjects performed mental-operation (MO) tasks in which they serially updated verbal and spatial mental representations (MO-v and MO-s). In the fMRI experiments, activity in the medial BA6 was more increased in MO-v, whereas the activity in the lateral BA6 in both hemispheres was more in MO-s. Low-frequency rTMS to the medial BA6 disrupted only the performance of MO-v, whereas rTMS to the lateral BA6 in both hemispheres disrupted only MO-s. Hence the converging results demonstrate a functional double dissociation in which medial BA6 has a critical role in updating verbal information and lateral BA6 has a role in updating spatial information. The present study provides direct physiological evidence of modality-specific cognitive function within human BA6. |
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Authors:
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Satoshi Tanaka; Manabu Honda; Norihiro Sadato |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Volume: 25 ISSN: 1529-2401 ISO Abbreviation: J. Neurosci. Publication Date: 2005 Jan |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2005-01-13 Completed Date: 2005-08-17 Revised Date: 2006-11-15 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8102140 Medline TA: J Neurosci Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 496-501 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Division of Physiological Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan. |
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Adult Cognition / physiology Female Frontal Lobe / anatomy & histology, physiology* Humans Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Magnetics / diagnostic use Male Memory / physiology Mental Processes / physiology* Neural Pathways / physiology Reaction Time / physiology Spatial Behavior / physiology Verbal Behavior / physiology |
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