From Intention to Action: Hierarchical Sensorimotor Transformation in the Posterior Parietal Cortex(12)

He Cui

doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0017-14.2014

From Intention to Action: Hierarchical Sensorimotor Transformation in the Posterior Parietal Cortex(12)

eNeuro. 2014 Nov 12;1(1):ENEURO.0017-14.2014. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0017-14.2014. eCollection 2014 Nov-Dec.

Author

He Cui¹

Affiliation

¹ Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute and Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University , Augusta, Georgia 30912.

Abstract

Cover FigureAlthough both the PRR and area 5d have been found to be intimately involved in visually guided reach, several recent studies of reference frame, decision making, and sequential movement suggest that they might play distinct roles in planning and control of reach at different levels of complexity, indicating a hierarchical circuitry participating in translation from abstract intention into concrete action plan.

Keywords: action selection; decision making; reference frame; sensorimotor integration; sequential movement.