caa a22 4500 463177576 CHVBK 20180406164829.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10339-007-0165-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10339-007-0165-z Multimodal action representation in human left ventral premotor cortex [Elektronische Daten] [Jonas Kaplan, Marco Iacoboni] We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural systems responding to the sight and to the sound of an action. Subjects saw a video of paper tearing in silence (V), heard the sound of paper tearing (A), and saw and heard the action simultaneously (A+V). Compared to a non-action control stimulus, we found that hearing action sounds (A) activated the anterior inferior frontal gyrus and middle frontal gyrus in addition to primary auditory cortex. The anterior inferior frontal gyrus, which is known to be activated by environmental sounds, also seems to be involved in recognizing actions by sound. Consistent with previous research, seeing an action video (V) compared with seeing a non-action video activated the premotor cortex, intraparietal cortex, and the pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus. An A+V facilitation effect was found in the ventral premotor cortex on the border of areas 44, 6, 3a, and 3b for the action stimuli but not for the control stimuli. This region may be involved in integrating multimodal information about actions. These data provide evidence that the ventral premotor cortex may provide an action representation that abstracts across both agency (self and other) and sensory modality (hearing and seeing). This function may be an important precursor of language functions. Marta Olivetti Belardinelli and Springer-Verlag, 2007 Kaplan Jonas Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA aut Iacoboni Marco Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA aut Cognitive Processing Springer-Verlag 8/2(2007-06-01), 103-113 1612-4782 8:2<103 2007 8 10339 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-007-0165-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-007-0165-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kaplan Jonas Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Iacoboni Marco Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cognitive Processing Springer-Verlag 8/2(2007-06-01), 103-113 1612-4782 8:2<103 2007 8 10339 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer