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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2025

Cortical Areas for Planning Sequences before and during Movement.

Giacomo Ariani, Mahdiyar Shahbazi, Jörn Diedrichsen

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Motor Sequence Learning Involves Better Prediction of the Next Action and Optimization of Movement Trajectories.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  10. Motor imagery enhances performance beyond the imagined action.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Giacomo ArianiWestern Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario N6A3K7, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-1272
Mahdiyar ShahbaziWestern Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario N6A3K7, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4883-4376
Jörn DiedrichsenWestern Institute for Neuroscience, Western University, London, Ontario N6A3K7, Canada jdiedric@uwo.ca.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0264-8532

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Production of rapid movement sequences relies on preparation before (preplanning) and during (online planning) movement. Here, we compared these processes and asked whether they recruit different cortical areas. Human participants performed three single-finger and three multifinger sequences in a delayed-movement paradigm while undergoing a 7 T functional MRI. During preparation, primary motor (M1) and somatosensory (S1) areas showed preactivation of the first movement, even without increases in overall activation. During production, the temporal summation of activity patterns corresponding to constituent fingers explained activity in these areas (M1 and S1). In contrast, the dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) and anterior superior parietal lobule (aSPL) showed substantial activation during the preparation (preplanning) of multifinger compared with single-finger sequences. These regions (PMd and aSPL) were also more active during production of multifinger sequences, suggesting that pre- and online planning may recruit the same regions. However, we observed small but robust differences between the two contrasts, suggesting distinct contributions to pre- and online planning. Multivariate analysis revealed sequence-specific representations in both PMd and aSPL, which remained stable across both preparation and production phases. Our analyses show that these areas maintain a sequence-specific representation before and during sequence production, likely guiding the execution-related areas in the production of rapid movement sequences.

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Cerebral CortexMotor CortexPsychomotor PerformanceAdultBrain MappingFemaleFingersHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMovementReaction TimeYoung Adultfunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)hand controlmotor planningmultivariate pattern analysis (MVPA)sequential movements

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PMID39542728
PMCPMC11735648

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