Nature Neuroscience 8, 1494 - 1496 (2005)
Published online: 2 October 2005; Corrected online: 09 October 2005 | doi:10.1038/nn1552
Shift of activity from attention to motor-related brain areas during visual learningStefan Pollmann1, 2
& Marianne Maertens1, 2, 31
Department of Experimental Psychology, Otto von Guericke University, Postbox 4120, 39016
Magdeburg, Germany. 2
Day Clinic of Cognitive Neurology, University of Leipzig, Liebigstrasse 22a, 04103
Leipzig, Germany. 3
Department of Cognitive Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1a, 04103
Leipzig, Germany.
Correspondence should be addressed to Stefan Pollmann stefan.pollmann@nat.uni-magdeburg.de With practice, we become increasingly efficient at visual object comparisons. This may be due to the formation of a memory template that not only binds individual features together to create an object, but also links the object with an associated response. In a longitudinal fMRI study of object matching, evidence for this link between perception and action was observed as a shift of activation from visual-attentive processing areas along the posterior intraparietal sulcus to hand-sensory and motor-related areas.
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