Imagery of voluntary movement of fingers, toes, and tongue activates corresponding body-part-specific motor representations.

By H. Ehrsson, Stefan Geyer, E. Naito. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Embodied simulation: From neurons to phenomenal experience (2005, background): “By comparing the motor centers activated by action observation with those activated during voluntary mental motor imagery, it emerges that only the latter leads to the activation of pre-SMA and of the primary motor cortex (see Ehrsson et al. 2003).”
Three-dimensional locations and boundaries of motor and premotor cortices as defined by functional brain imaging: A meta-analysis (2006, background): “…limit of SMC was approximately z = 20 (Table 5A), just below peak z activations that have been reported (between z = 24 and 40) for the most ventral part of area 4 (i.e.. the motor tongue area) (Fox et al., 2001;Alkadhi et al., 2002a;Turkeltaub et al., 2002;Ehrsson et al., 2003b;Fesl et al., 2003).”
Mental imagery of speech: linking motor and perceptual systems through internal simulation and estimation (2012, background): “Numerous studies have demonstrated both frontal and parietal activity during motor imagery (Decety et al., 1994; Lotze et al., 1999; Gerardin et al., 2000; Ehrsson et al., 2003; Hanakawa et al., 2003; Dechent et al., 2004; Meister et al., 2004; Nikulin et al., 2008).”
Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits (2005, background): “Voluntary motor imagery is characterized by the activation of primary motor, premotor, and mesial motor areas ( Ehrsson, Geyer, & Naito, 2003; Gerardin et al., 2000; Grafton et al., 1996; Stephan et al., 1995; Tyzszka, Grafton, Chew, Woods, & Colletti, 1994).”
The Effect of Imagination on Stimulation: The Functional Specificity of Efference Copies in Speech Processing (2013, methodology): “The experimental protocol was approved by the New York University Institutional Review Board.”
Negative Covariation between Task-related Responses in Alpha/Beta-Band Activity and BOLD in Human Sensorimotor Cortex: an EEG and fMRI Study of Motor Imagery and Movements (2009, methodology): “, 2000), including the precentral, postcentral, and paracentral gyrus, all of which were shown to be activated by imagination and movement (Ehrsson et al., 2003).”
Using Mental Imagery to Enhance the Effectiveness of Implementation Intentions (2009, background): “…to the theory of functional equivalence and the recently introduced integrative neuro-cognitive theory of imagery (Murphy et al. 2008), imaging an action is equivalent to actually carrying it out as it activates the same areas in the brain (Moran 2004; empirical support: Ehrsson et al. 2003).”
Motor imagery and action observation: cognitive tools for rehabilitation (2007, background): “Similar results were obtained by Ehrsson et al. (2003) who showed that imagery of finger, tongue and toe movements activated the somatotopically organized areas of the primary motor cortex in a systematic manner, which means that imagery of finger movement activated the finger area, imagery of toe…”
Cortical Ensemble Adaptation to Represent Velocity of an Artificial Actuator Controlled by a Brain-Machine Interface (2005, background): “, when subjects imagine that they produce movements) (Leonardo et al., 1995; Porro et al., 1996; Ehrsson et al., 2003) or when the illusion of limb movement is induced by muscle vibration (Naito et al.”
Functional neuroanatomical networks associated with expertise in motor imagery (2008, positive): “The pattern of activation in these regions which overlaps those controlling overt movement, is consistent with the well-established results from neuroimaging experiments that investigated sequential finger-to-thumb opposition tasks (Roth et al., 1996; Gerardin et al., 2000; Porro et al., 2000; Binko”