title: Interactions between areas of the cortical grasping network.
abstract: Skilled grasp is a sensorimotor process requiring the brain to extract sensory cues from the environment to shape a motor command. Although a large body of literature has focused on which brain areas either integrate the visual object's properties or control the motor output, it is still unclear how grasp-related information is transferred from one area to another. Understanding interactions between brain areas is crucial for the study of visuomotor transformations. Recently, new advances in both human and non-human primates have shown it is possible to study cortico-cortical interactions during different task contexts. This sheds new light on how brain areas are integrated in a dynamic network for controlling grasping actions.
authors.affiliation: Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, WC1N 3BG, London, UK.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Davare
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kraskov
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Rothwell
authors.forename: Roger N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Lemon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D018737:Hand Strength / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology*; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*