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Order-dependent modulation of directional signals in the supplementary and presupplementary motor areas.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  18077677     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
To maximize reward and minimize effort, animals must often execute multiple movements in a timely and orderly manner. Such movement sequences must be usually discovered through experience, and during this process, signals related to the animal's action, its ordinal position in the sequence, and subsequent reward need to be properly integrated. To investigate the role of the primate medial frontal cortex in planning and controlling multiple movements, monkeys were trained to produce a series of hand movements instructed by visual stimuli. We manipulated the number of movements in a sequence across trials, making it possible to dissociate the effects of the ordinal position of a given movement and the number of remaining movements necessary to obtain reward. Neurons in the supplementary and presupplementary motor areas modulated their activity according to the number of remaining movements, more often than in relation to the ordinal position, suggesting that they might encode signals related to the timing of reward or its temporally discounted value. In both cortical areas, signals related to the number of remaining movements and those related to movement direction were often combined multiplicatively, suggesting that the gain of the signals related to movements might be modulated by motivational factors. Finally, compared with the supplementary motor area, neurons in the presupplementary motor area were more likely to increase their activity when the number of remaining movements is large. These results suggest that these two areas might play complementary roles in controlling movement sequences.
Authors:
Jeong-Woo Sohn; Daeyeol Lee
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience     Volume:  27     ISSN:  1529-2401     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Neurosci.     Publication Date:  2007 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2007-12-13     Completed Date:  2008-01-22     Revised Date:  2011-01-31    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8102140     Medline TA:  J Neurosci     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  13655-66     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Behavior, Animal / physiology
Electrodes, Implanted
Fixation, Ocular / physiology
Frontal Lobe / physiology*
Hand / physiology
Linear Models
Macaca mulatta
Male
Models, Neurological
Movement / physiology
Photic Stimulation / methods
Psychomotor Performance / physiology
Reaction Time / physiology
Reward
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
MH059216/MH/NIMH NIH HHS; R01 MH059216-10/MH/NIMH NIH HHS
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