Functional Connectivity and Networks Underlying Complex Tool-Use Movement in Assembly Workers: An fMRI Study.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to identify the functional connectivity and networks utilized during tool-use in real assembly workers. These brain networks have not been elucidated because the use of tools in real-life settings is more complex than that in experimental environments. We evaluated task-related functional magnetic resonance imaging in 13 assembly workers (trained workers, TW) and 27 age-matched volunteers (untrained workers, UTW) during a tool-use pantomiming task, and resting-state functional connectivity was also analyzed. Two-way repeated-measures analysis of covariance was conducted with the group as a between-subject factor (TW > UTW) and condition (task > resting) as a repeated measure, controlling for assembly time and accuracy as covariates. We identified two patterns of f

SUBMITTER: Taniguchi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8581229 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature