Simulation Modifies Prehension: Evidence for a Conjoined Representation of the Graspable Features of an Object and the Action of Grasping It

Frak, Victor; Croteau, Isabelle; Bourbonnais, Daniel; Duval, Christian et Duclos, Cyril (2007). « Simulation Modifies Prehension: Evidence for a Conjoined Representation of the Graspable Features of an Object and the Action of Grasping It ». Public Library of Science, 2(3 e311), pp. 1-5.

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Movement formulas, engrams, kinesthetic images and internal models of the body in action are notions derived mostly from clinical observations of brain-damaged subjects. They also suggest that the prehensile geometry of an object is integrated in the neural circuits and includes the object's graspable characteristics as well as its semantic properties. In order to determine whether there is a conjoined representation of the graspable characteristics of an object in relation to the actual grasping, it is necessary to separate the graspable (low-level) from the semantic (high-level) properties of the object. Right-handed subjects were asked to grasp and lift a smooth 300-g cylinder with one hand, before and after judging the level of difficulty of a “grasping for pouring

Type: Article de revue scientifique
Mots-clés ou Sujets: Motor simulation. Interlimb transfer.
Unité d'appartenance: Faculté des sciences
Déposé par: Victor Frak
Date de dépôt: 17 mai 2010 13:42
Dernière modification: 01 nov. 2014 02:14
Adresse URL : http://archipel.uqam.ca/id/eprint/2949

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