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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2021

Hand-Selective Visual Regions Represent How to Grasp 3D Tools: Brain Decoding during Real Actions.

Ethan Knights, Courtney Mansfield, Diana Tonin, Janak Saada, Fraser W Smith, Stéphanie Rossit

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ethan KnightsMedical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 7EF, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6078-9160
Courtney MansfieldSchool of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom.
Diana ToninSchool of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom.
Janak SaadaDepartment of Radiology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich NR4 7UY, United Kingdom.
Fraser W SmithSchool of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8016-5109
Stéphanie RossitSchool of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom s.rossit@uea.ac.uk.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6640-2289
University of East Anglia · GBMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit · GBNorfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_00005/8
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most neuroimaging experiments that investigate how tools and their actions are represented in the brain use visual paradigms where tools or hands are displayed as 2D images and no real movements are performed. These studies discovered selective visual responses in occipitotemporal and parietal cortices for viewing pictures of hands or tools, which are assumed to reflect action processing, but this has rarely been directly investigated. Here, we examined the responses of independently visually defined category-selective brain areas when participants grasped 3D tools (

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AdolescentAdultBrainBrain MappingFemaleHandHand StrengthHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalMagnetic Resonance ImagingMalePsychomotor PerformanceYoung Adultbody representationcategory selectivitygraspingmultivariate pattern analysistool use

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PMID33972399
PMCPMC8211542
OpenAlexW3163080521

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