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ArticleiScience2023

The neurophysiology of continuous action monitoring.

Saskia Wilken, Adriana Böttcher, Nico Adelhöfer, Markus Raab, Sven Hoffmann, Christian Beste

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Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Temporal Dynamics of EEG Reflect Continuous Error Correction during Force Control.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  5. Directed Neural Network Dynamics in Sensorimotor Integration: Divergent Roles of Frontal Theta Band Activity Depending on Age.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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6 authors.

Saskia WilkenGeneral Psychology: Judgment, Decision Making, and Action, Institute of Psychology, University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany.
Adriana BöttcherCognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Nico AdelhöferCognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Markus RaabPerformance Psychology, Institute of Psychology, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Sven HoffmannGeneral Psychology: Judgment, Decision Making, and Action, Institute of Psychology, University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany.
Christian BesteCognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monitoring actions is essential for goal-directed behavior. However, as opposed to short-lasting, and regularly reinstating monitoring functions, the neural processes underlying continuous action monitoring are poorly understood. We investigate this using a pursuit-tracking paradigm. We show that beta band activity likely maintains the sensorimotor program, while theta and alpha bands probably support attentional sampling and information gating, respectively. Alpha and beta band activity are most relevant during the initial tracking period, when sensorimotor calibrations are most intense. Theta band shifts from parietal to frontal cortices throughout tracking, likely reflecting a shift in the functional relevance from attentional sampling to action monitoring. This study shows that resource allocation mechanisms in prefrontal areas and stimulus-response mapping processes in the parietal cortex are crucial for adapting sensorimotor processes. It fills a knowledge gap in understanding the neural processes underlying action monitoring and suggests new directions for examining sensorimotor integration in more naturalistic experiments.

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Cognitive neuroscienceSensory neuroscience

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PMID37332673
PMCPMC10275727

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