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SynthesisNeuroImage2008

Functional neuroimaging correlates of finger-tapping task variations: an ALE meta-analysis.

Suzanne T Witt, Angela R Laird, M Elizabeth Meyerand

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Synthesis in NeuroImage, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07647913 (Rhythm Psychophysics With Parkinson's Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 206 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2 · The registry

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NCT07647913 nanot yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Rhythm Psychophysics With Parkinson's Patients

TypeinterventionalSponsorMcMaster UniversityRan2026 to 2027Enrolled34ConditionsParkinson Disease(PD)ArmsWithholding Levodopa
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

206 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  18. Global and Local Deviance Effects in the Processing of Temporal Patterns.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Suzanne T WittDepartment of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. stwitt@wisc.edu
Angela R Laird
M Elizabeth Meyerand

Funding

Meta-anaylsis in human brain mappingR01MH074457 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI FOX, PETER THORNTON · 2006 to 2024
$10.5M
Treatment Planning using Physiologic MRI DataR01CA118365 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI MEYERAND, MARY E. · 2007 to 2010
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA118365NCI NIH HHS R01-CA118365-01NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH074457NIMH NIH HHS R01-MH074457-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Finger-tapping tasks are one of the most common paradigms used to study the human motor system in functional neuroimaging studies. These tasks can vary both in the presence or absence of a pacing stimulus as well as in the complexity of the tapping task. A voxel-wise, coordinate-based meta-analysis was performed on 685 sets of activation foci in Talairach space gathered from 38 published studies employing finger-tapping tasks. Clusters of concordance were identified within the primary sensorimotor cortices, supplementary motor area, premotor cortex, inferior parietal cortices, basal ganglia, and anterior cerebellum. Subsequent analyses performed on subsets of the primary set of foci demonstrated that the use of a pacing stimulus resulted in a larger, more diverse network of concordance clusters, in comparison to varying the complexity of the tapping task. The majority of the additional concordance clusters occurred in regions involved in the temporal aspects of the tapping task, rather than its execution. Tapping tasks employing a visual pacing stimulus recruited a set of nodes distinct from the results observed in those tasks employing either an auditory or no pacing stimulus, suggesting differing cognitive networks when integrating visual or auditory pacing stimuli into simple motor tasks. The relatively uniform network of concordance clusters observed across the more complex finger-tapping tasks suggests that further complexity, beyond the use of multi-finger sequences or bimanual tasks, may be required to fully reveal those brain regions necessary to execute truly complex movements.

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Task Performance and AnalysisBrain MappingEvoked Potentials, MotorFingersHumansMotor CortexMotor Skills

Identifiers

PMID18511305
PMCPMC2592684

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