The Role of Higher-Order Motor Areas in Voluntary Movement as Revealed by High-Resolution EEG and fMRI

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 10; no. 6; pp. 682 - 694
• Main Authors: Ball, Tonio, Schreiber, Axel, Feige, Bernd, Wagner, Michael, Lücking, Carl Hermann, Kristeva-Feige, Rumyana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.12.1999; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Brain mapping; Cortex (motor); EEG; Electroencephalography; Female; Fingers; Frontal Lobe - physiology; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Investigations; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Motor Cortex - physiology; Motor task performance; Movement - physiology; Muscle, Skeletal - physiology; Neuroimaging; Parietal lobe; Parietal Lobe - physiology; Reference Values; Somatosensory Cortex - physiology; Spatial discrimination; Structure-function relationships; Supplementary motor area; Temporal cortex

In the human motor cortex structural and functional differences separate motor areas related to motor output from areas essentially involved in higher-order motor control. Little is known about the function of these higher-order motor areas during simple voluntary movement. We examined a simple fing...