Functional role of the supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas

By Parashkev Nachev, C. Kennard, Masud Husain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2008

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A quantitative meta-analysis and review of motor learning in the human brain (2013, background): “More caudally positioned (SMA-proper) regions of the SMC are linked with motor functions such as volitional action execution (Jakobs et al., 2009; Nachev et al., 2008).”
The expected value of control: An integrative theory of anterior cingulate cortex function (2013, positive): “A related account suggests that representations within dACC may be organized by the level of abstraction or complexity of a task (Venkatraman and Huettel, 2012; see Nachev et al., 2008, for an analogous account).”
Subregions of the human superior frontal gyrus and their connections (2013, neutral): “…part of the SFG including the supplementary motor area (SMA) is mainly activated by motor tasks (Chouinard and Paus, 2010; Martino et al., 2011; Nachev et al., 2008); the lateral part of the SFG is involved in execution within working memory (du Boisgueheneuc et al., 2006; Owen, 2000; Owen et…”
The Hierarchical Organisation of Cortical and Basal-Ganglia Systems: A Computationally-Informed Review and Integrated Hypothesis (2013, positive): “, 2007), the biasing effect of the PFC was augmented by adding inhibitory mechanisms which, as explicitly recognised in the paper, abstract the inhibitory effects that PFC can exert on motor cortex via the basal ganglia and the supplementary motor cortex (Nachev et al., 2008).”
“Roles for the pre-supplementary motor area and the right inferior frontal gyrus in stopping action: electrophysiological responses and functional and structural connectivity” (2011, background): “…Magnetic Stimulation show that stopping an initiated response depends on the integrity of the right inferior frontal gyrus (rIFG) as well as the presupplementary motor area (preSMA) (reviewed by Aron, 2010; Chambers et al., 2009; Chikazoe, 2010; Levy and Wagner, 2011; Nachev et al., 2008).”
A new neural framework for visuospatial processing (2011, background): “23v, ventral subregion of the posterior cingulate; 28, entorhinal cortex; 35 and 36, perirhinal cortex; as , arcuate sulcus; cas , calcarine sulcus; CC, corpus callosum; cis , cingulate sulcus; cs , central sulcus; ios , inferior occipital sulcus; ls , lateral sulcus; ots , occipitotemporal sulcus;…”
Neural basis of reinforcement learning and decision making. (2012, background): “For example, when human subjects are asked to initiate a movement voluntarily without any immediate sensory cue, scalp EEG displays the so-called readiness potential well before movement onset, and its source has been localized to the supplementary motor area (Haggard 2008, Nachev et al. 2008).”
The image of time: A voxel-wise meta-analysis (2010, background): “Additionally, several regions with significant activation likelihood in the cortex, including the SMA, right IPL and right IFG, are known to have strong efferent projections to the basal ganglia (Nachev et al., 2008; Cavada and Goldman-Rakic, 1991; Alexander et al., 1986).”
Cognitive interference elicits developmental sex differences in inhibitory control (2025, unknown): “…regions are critical for an array of higher-order cognitive functions, including the selection and execution of target behaviors, while inhibiting inappropriate responses (Heinrichs-Graham and Wilson, 2015; Huang et al., 2025; Mostofsky and Simmonds, 2008; Nachev et al., 2008; Son et al., 2024).”