title: Parietal control of hand action.
abstract: Recent advances suggest that neurons of the anterior intraparietal area play a critical role in the visual guidance of hand action. The parietal cortex appears to process in-coming binocular visual signals of the three-dimensional features of objects and matches these signals with the motor signals, which come from the ventral premotor cortex, that will be required for hand manipulation of the object.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Nihon University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taira
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology*; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology