Motor corticospinal excitability during the observation of interactive hand gestures

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 89-95

  Enticott, Peter G ^a   Kennedy, Hayley A ^a   Bradshaw, John L ^a   Rinehart, Nicole J ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotion; Empathy; Mirror neurons; Premotor cortex; Primary motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SELF REPORT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; GESTURES; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; OBSERVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957862447     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2011.03.018     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Agnew Z.K., Bhakoo K.K., Puri B.K. The human mirror system: a motor resonance theory of mind-reading. Brain Res. Rev. 2007, 54:286-293.
2. Alaerts K., Swinnen S.P., Wenderoth N. Is the human primary motor cortex activated by muscular or direction-dependent features of observed movements?. Cortex 2009, 45:1148-1155.
3. Aziz-Zadeh L., Maeda F., Zaidel E., Mazziotta J., Iacoboni M. Lateralisation in motor facilitation during action observation: a TMS study. Exp. Brain Res. 2002, 144:127-131.
4. Baron-Cohen S., Wheelwright S. The empathy quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism, and normal sex differences. J. Autism Dev. Disord. 2004, 34:163-175.
5. Borroni P., Montagna M., Cerri G., Baldissera F. Cyclic time course of motor excitability modulation during the observation of a cyclic hand movement. Brain Res. 2005, 1065:115-124.
6. Carr L., Iacoboni M., Dubeau M.-C., Mazziotta J.C., Lenzi G.L. Neural mechanisms of empathy in humans: a relay from neural systems for imitation to limbic areas. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2003, 100:5497-5502.
7. Coombes S.A., Tasdonnet C., Fujiyama H., Janelle C.M., Cauraugh J.H., Summers J.J. Emotion and motor preparation: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study of corticospinal motor tract excitability. Cogn. Affect. Behav. Neurosci. 2009, 9:380-388.
8. di Pellegrino G., Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Gallese V., Rizzolatti G. Understanding motor events: a neurophysiological study. Exp. Brain Res. 1992, 91:176-180.
9. Enticott P.G., Hoy K.E., Herring S.E., Johnston P.J., Daskalakis J.Z., Fitzgerald P.B. Reduced motor facilitation during action observation in schizophrenia: a mirror neuron deficit?. Schizophr. Res. 2008, 102:116-121.
10. Enticott P.G., Johnston P.J., Herring S.E., Hoy K.E., Fitzgerald P.B. Mirror neuron activation is associated with facial emotion processing. Neuropsychologia 2008, 46:2851-2854.
11. Enticott P.G., Kennedy H.A., Bradshaw J.L., Rinehart N.J., Fitzgerald P.B. Understanding mirror neurons: evidence for enhanced corticospinal excitability during the observation of transitive but not intransitive hand gestures. Neuropsychologia 2010, 48:2675-2680.
12. Fadiga L., Craighero L., Olivier E. Human motor cortex excitability during the perception of others' action. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 2005, 15:213-218.
13. Fadiga L., Fogassi L., Pavesi G., Rizzolatti G. Motor facilitation during action observation: a magnetic stimulation study. J. Neurophysiol. 1995, 73:2608-2611.
14. Fitzgerald P.B., Fountain S., Daskalakis Z.J. A comprehensive review of the effects of rTMS on motor cortical excitability and inhibition. Clin. Neurophysiol. 2006, 117:2584-2596.
15. Gallese V. The 'shared manifold' hypothesis; from mirror neurons to empathy. J. Conscious. Stud. 2001, 8:33-50.
16. Gallese V. Intentional attunement: a neurophysiological perspective on social cognition and its disruption in autism. Brain Res. 2006, 1079:15-24.
17. Gallese V. Before and below 'theory of mind': embodied simulation and the neural correlates of social cognition. Social Intelligence: From Brain to Culture 2007, Oxford University Press, New York. N. Emery, N. Clayton, C. Frith (Eds.).
18. Gangitano M., Mottaghy F.M., Pascual-Leone A. Phase-specific modulation of cortical motor output during movement observation. NeuroReport 2001, 12:1489-1492.
19. Gangitano M., Mottaghy F.M., Pascual-Leone A. Modulation of premotor mirror neuron activity during observation of unpredictable grasping movements. Eur. J. Neurosci. 2004, 20:2193-2202.
20. Gazzola V., Aziz-Zadeh L., Keysers C. Empathy and the somatotopic auditory mirror system in humans. Curr. Biol. 2006, 16:1824-1829.
21. Gazzola V., Rizzolatti G., Wicker B., Keysers C. The anthropomorphic brain: the mirror neuron system responds to human and robotic actions. Neuroimage 2007, 35:1674-1684.
22. Haker H., Rossler W. Empathy in schizophrenia: impaired resonance. Eur. Arch. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 2009, 259:352-361.
23. Hooker C.I., Verosky S.C., Germine L.T., Knight R.T., D'Esposito M. Neural activity during social signal perception correlates with self-reported empathy. Brain Res. 2010, 1308:100-113.
24. Iacoboni M., Dapretto M. The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2006, 7:942-951.
25. Iacoboni M., Lieberman M.D., Knowlton B.J., Molnar-Szakacs I., Moritz M., Throop C.J., Fiske A.P. Watching social interactions produces dorsomedial prefrontal and medial parietal BOLD fMRI signal increases compared to a resting baseline. Neuroimage 2004, 21:1167-1173.
26. Kaplan J.T., Iacoboni M. Getting a grip on other minds: mirror neurons, intention understanding, and cognitive empathy. Soc. Neurosci. 2006, 1:175-183.
27. Keysers C., Kaas J.H., Gazzola V. Somatosensation in social perception. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 2010, 11:417-428.
28. Kilner J.M., Neal A., Weiskopf N., Friston K.J., Frith C.D. Evidence of mirror neurons in human inferior frontal gyrus. J. Neurosci. 2009, 29:10153-10159.
29. Knutson K.M., McClellan E.M., Grafman J. Observing social gestures: an fMRI study. Exp. Brain Res. 2008, 188:187-198.
30. Lepage J.F., Tremblay S., Theoret H. Early non-specific modulation of corticospinal excitability during action observation. Eur. J. Neurosci. 2010, 31:931-937.
31. Maeda F., Kleiner-Fisman G., Pascual-Leone A. Motor facilitation while observing hand actions: specificity of the effect and role of observer's orientation. J. Neurophysiol. 2002, 87:1329-1335.
32. Mukamel R., Ekstrom A.D., Kaplan J., Iacoboni M., Fried I. Single-neuron responses in humans during execution and observation of actions. Curr. Biol. 2010, 20:750-756.
33. Muncer S.J., Ling J. Psychometric analysis of the empathy quotient (EQ) scale. Pers. Indiv. Differ. 2006, 40:1111-1119.
34. Newman-Norlund R.D., Bosga J., Meulenbroek R.G., Bekkering H. Anatomical substrates of cooperative joint-action in a continuous motor task: virtual lifting and balancing. Neuroimage 2008, 41:169-177.
35. Newman-Norlund R.D., Ganesh S., van Schie H.T., De Bruijn E.R.A., Bekkering H. Self-identification and empathy modulate error-related activity during the observation of penalty shots between friend and foe. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 2009, 4:10-22.
36. Newman-Norlund R.D., van Schie H.T., van Hoek M.E.C., Cuijpers R.H., Bekkering H. The role of inferior frontal and parietal areas in differentiating meaningful and meaningless object-directed actions. Brain Res. 2010, 1315:63-74.
37. Newman-Norlund R.D., van Schie H.T., van Zuijlen A.M., Bekkering H. The mirror neuron system is more active during complimentary compared with imitative action. Nat. Neurosci. 2007, 10:817-818.
38. Oberman L.M., Hubbard E.M., McCleery J.P., Altschuler E.L., Ramachandran V.S., Pineda J.A. EEG evidence for mirror neuron dysfunction in autism spectrum disorders. Cogn. Brain Res. 2005, 24:190-198.
39. Oberman L.M., Pineda J.A., Ramachandran V.S. The human mirror neuron system: a link between action observation and social skills. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 2007, 2:62-66.
40. Oberman L.M., Ramachandran V.S. The stimulating social mind: the role of the mirror neuron system and simulation in the social and communicative deficits of autism spectrum disorders. Psychol. Bull. 2007, 133:310-327.
41. Perry A., Bentin S. Mirror activity in the human brain while observing hand movements: a comparison between EEG desynchronization in the mu-range and previous fMRI results. Brain Res. 2009, 1282:126-132.
42. Perry A., Troje N.F., Bentin S. Exploring motor system contributions to the perception of social information: evidence from EEG activity in the mu/alpha frequency range. Soc. Neurosci. 2010, 5:272-284.
43. Pfeifer J.H., Iacoboni M., Mazziotta J.C., Dapretto M. Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children. Neuroimage 2008, 39:2076-2085.
44. Puzzo I., Cooper N.R., Vetter P., Russo R. EEG activation in the pre-motor cortex and supplementary motor area between normal individuals with high and low traits of autism. Brain Res. 2010, 1342:104-110.
45. Puzzo I., Cooper N.R., Vetter P., Russo R., Fitzgerald P.B. Reduced cortico-motor facilitation in a normal sample with high traits of autism. Neurosci. Lett. 2009, 467:173-177.
46. Rizzolatti G., Arbib M.A. Language within our grasp. Trends Neurosci. 1998, 21:188-194.
47. Rizzolatti G., Craighero L. The mirror-neuron system. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 2004, 27:169-192.
48. Schmidt S., Cichy R.M., Kraft A., Brocke J., Irlbacher K., Brandt S.A. An initial transient-state and reliable measures of corticospinal excitability in TMS studies. Clin. Neurophysiol. 2009, 120:987-993.
49. Sebanz N., Rebbechi D., Knoblich G., Prinz W., Frith C.D. Is it really my turn? An event-related fMRI study of task sharing. Soc. Neurosci. 2007, 2:81-95.
50. Strafella A.P., Paus T. Modulation of cortical excitability during action observation: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study. NeuroReport 2000, 11:2289-2292.
51. Wassermann E.M. Risk and safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: report and suggested guidelines from the International Workshop on the Safety of Repetitive Transcranial Stimulation, June 5-7, 1996. Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol. 1998, 108:1-16.
52. Williams J.H.G., Whiten A., Suddendorf T., Perrett D.I. Imitation, mirror neurons and autism. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 2001, 25:287-295.
53. Wolf N.S., Gales M.E., Shane E., Shane M. The developmental trajectory from amodal perception to empathy and communication: the role of mirror neurons in this process. Psychoanal. Inquiry 2001, 21:94-112.