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ArticleNeuropsychologia2024

Reciprocal interactions among parietal and occipito-temporal representations support everyday object-directed actions.

Bradford Z Mahon, Jorge Almeida

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Article in Neuropsychologia, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Action execution and observation in autistic adults: A systematic review of fMRI studies.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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  10. 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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  13. Graspable foods and tools elicit similar responses in visual cortex.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024
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2 authors.

Bradford Z MahonDepartment of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA. Electronic address: bmahon@andrew.cmu.edu.
Jorge AlmeidaProaction Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal; CINEICC, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Funding

Representational Similarity Spaces for Objects and Actions Before and After Brain Tumor SurgeryR01NS089609 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Constantinos George Hadjipanayis, BRADFORD Zack MAHON · 2015 to 2026
$3.3M
Access to parietal action representations after stroke lesions in visual cortexR01EY028535 · NEI · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI MAHON, BRADFORD ZACK, SAHIN, BOGACHAN · 2019 to 2022
$1.7M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY028535NINDS NIH HHS 2R01NS089609NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS089609
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Everyday interactions with common manipulable objects require the integration of conceptual knowledge about objects and actions with real-time sensory information about the position, orientation and volumetric structure of the grasp target. The ability to successfully interact with everyday objects involves analysis of visual form and shape, surface texture, material properties, conceptual attributes such as identity, function and typical context, and visuomotor processing supporting hand transport, grasp form, and object manipulation. Functionally separable brain regions across the dorsal and ventral visual pathways support the processing of these different object properties and, in cohort, are necessary for functional object use. Object-directed grasps display end-state-comfort: they anticipate in form and force the shape and material properties of the grasp target, and how the object will be manipulated after it is grasped. End-state-comfort is the default for everyday interactions with manipulable objects and implies integration of information across the ventral and dorsal visual pathways. We propose a model of how visuomotor and action representations in parietal cortex interact with object representations in ventral and lateral occipito-temporal cortex. One pathway, from the supramarginal gyrus to the middle and inferior temporal gyrus, supports the integration of action-related information, including hand and limb position (supramarginal gyrus) with conceptual attributes and an appreciation of the action goal (middle temporal gyrus). A second pathway, from posterior IPS to the fusiform gyrus and collateral sulcus supports the integration of grasp parameters (IPS) with the surface texture and material properties (e.g., weight distribution) of the grasp target. Reciprocal interactions among these regions are part of a broader network of regions that support everyday functional object interactions.

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Occipital LobeParietal LobePsychomotor PerformanceTemporal LobeBrain MappingHand StrengthHumansVisual Perception

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PMID38430962
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