Somatosensation in Action

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Event Abstract Back to Event Somatosensation in Action Valeria Gazzola1, 2* 1 University Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands 2 Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Netherlands The mirror neuron system (MNS), active both during action execution and observation, is classically thought to include only premotor and posterior parietal areas. Recently, the primary somatosensory cortex (the BA1/2 inparticular) was also shown to be activated during action execution and observation. In my talk I will therefore focus on the role that the somatosensory cortices could play within the action perception circuits. In particular I will show that (1) TMS induced changes in BA1/2 activity predicted changes of action-specific brain activation in premotor nodes of the MNS, supporting the idea that BA1/2 plays a causal role in the MNS, (2) BA1/2 plays a causal role in extracting somatosensory features (heavy/light) from observed action, and (3) µ-suppression actually correlates more with activity in BA1/2 than the premotor nodes. I will conclude with the idea that the MNS might provide an integrated, somato-motor representation of other's actions. Keywords: mirror system, Somatosensation, action observation, TMS, mu rhythm suppression Conference: ACNS-2012 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 29 Nov - 2 Dec, 2012. Presentation Type: Symposium Presentation Topic: Motor Citation: Gazzola V (2012). Somatosensation in Action. Conference Abstract: ACNS-2012 Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Conference. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2012.208.00010 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 30 Oct 2012; Published Online: 31 Oct 2012. * Correspondence: Dr. Valeria Gazzola, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, v.gazzola@nin.knaw.nl Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Valeria Gazzola Google Valeria Gazzola Google Scholar Valeria Gazzola PubMed Valeria Gazzola Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.