Brain, Vol 120, Issue 10 1763-1777, Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press
J Decety, J Grezes, N Costes, D Perani, M Jeannerod, E Procyk, F Grassi and F Fazio
PET was used to map brain regions that are associated with the observation
of meaningful and meaningless hand actions. Subjects were scanned under
four conditions which consisted of visually presented actions. In each of
the four experimental conditions, they were instructed to watch the actions
with one of two aims: to be able to recognize or to imitate them later. We
found that differences in the meaning of the action, irrespective of the
strategy used during observation, lead to different patterns of brain
activity and clear left/right asymmetries. Meaningful actions strongly
engaged the left hemisphere in frontal and temporal regions while
meaningless actions involved mainly the right occipitoparietal pathway.
Observing with the intent to recognize activated memory-encoding
structures. In contrast, observation with the intent to imitate was
associated with activation in the regions involved in the planning and in
the generation of actions. Thus, the pattern of brain activation during
observation of actions is dependent both on the nature of the required
executive processing and the type of the extrinsic properties of the action
presented.
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