Motor expertise shapes crossmodal and modality-specific action representations in table tennis players.

ABSTRACT: Multivariate neuroimaging studies have shown a functional dissociation between the temporal and frontoparietal cortices in action representation. However, it remains unclear to what extent this specificity is modulated by motor experience. To address this question, we employed functional magnetic resonance imaging-based multivoxel pattern analysis (MVPA). Neural activation patterns were compared between professional table tennis players (experts) and novices during the passive observation of action videos and the reading of corresponding action-related sentences. Specifically, to identify brain regions that decode perceptual-motor information, classifiers were trained and tested within the same stimulus modality (video or sentence). To identify brain regions supporting conceptual-level act

SUBMITTER: Mou H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12487376 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature