When Corticospinal Inhibition Favors an Efficient Motor Response.

ABSTRACT: Many daily activities involve responding to the actions of other people. However, the functional relationship between the motor preparation and execution phases still needs to be clarified. With the combination of different and complementary experimental techniques (i.e., motor excitability measures, reaction times, electromyography, and dyadic 3-D kinematics), we investigated the behavioral and neurophysiological signatures characterizing different stages of a motor response in contexts calling for an interactive action. Participants were requested to perform an action (i.e., stirring coffee or lifting a coffee cup) following a co-experimenter's request gesture. Another condition, in which a non-interactive gesture was used, was also included. Greater corticospinal inhibition was found wh

SUBMITTER: Betti S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9953307 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature