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ArticleCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2023

Mechanisms and neuroanatomy of response selection in tool and non-tool action tasks: Evidence from left-hemisphere stroke.

Frank E Garcea, Laurel J Buxbaum

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Article in Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Object-directed action representations are componentially built in parietal cortex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Frank E GarceaDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA; Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA; Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA. Electronic address: frank_garcea@urmc.rochester.edu.
Laurel J BuxbaumMoss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Elkins Park, PA, USA; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Moss Rehabilitation Hospital · USUniversity of Rochester Medical Center · US

Funding

The University of Rochester's Clinical and Translational Science InstituteUL1TR002001 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI WILSON, KAREN M., ZAND, MARTIN S · 2016 to 2024
$34.6M
Institutional Career Development CoreKL2TR001999 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI XIAO, JIN · 2016 to 2024
$5.2M
Postdoctoral Training in Translational Neurorehabilitation ResearchT32HD071844 · NICHD · ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK · PI WHYTE, JOHN · 2013 to 2022
$2.2M
Understanding Action Selection in the Tool Use NetworkR01NS099061 · NINDS · ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK · PI BUXBAUM, LAUREL J · 2016 to 2020
$2.0M
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR001999NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002001NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD071844NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS099061
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to select between potential actions is central to the complex process of tool use. After left hemisphere stroke, individuals with limb apraxia make more hand action errors when gesturing the use of tools with conflicting hand actions for grasping-to-move and use (e.g., screwdriver) relative to tools that are grasped-to-move and used with the same hand action (e.g., hammer). Prior research indicates that this grasp-use interference effect is driven by abnormalities in the competitive action selection process. The goal of this project was to determine whether common mechanisms and neural substrates support the competitive selection of task-appropriate responses in both tool and non-tool domains. If so, the grasp-use interference effect in a tool use gesturing task should be correlated with response interference effects in the classic Eriksen flanker and Simon tasks, and at least partly overlapping neural regions should subserve the 3 tasks. Sixty-four left hemisphere stroke survivors (33 with apraxia) participated in the tool- and non-tool interference tasks and underwent T1 anatomical MRI. There were robust grasp-use interference effects (grasp-use conflict test) and response interference effects (Eriksen flanker and Simon tasks), but these effects were not correlated. Lesion-symptom mapping analyses showed that lesions to the left inferior parietal lobule, ventral premotor cortex, and insula were associated with grasp-use interference. Lesions to the left inferior parietal lobule, postcentral gyrus, insula, caudate, and putamen were associated with response interference in the Eriksen flanker task. Lesions to the left caudate and putamen were also associated with response interference in the Simon task. Our results suggest that the selection of hand posture for tool use is mediated by distinct cognitive mechanisms and partly distinct neuroanatomic substrates from those mapping a stimulus to an appropriate motor response in non-tool domains.

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ApraxiasStrokeBrain MappingFunctional LateralityHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeuroanatomyPsychomotor PerformanceApraxiaExecutive functionHand postureLeft inferior parietal lobuleLeft ventral premotor cortexLesion symptom mappingResponse selectionTool use gesturing

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PMID37598647
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