eprintid: 72841 rev_number: 39 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/00/07/28/41 datestamp: 2010-10-17 08:10:39 lastmod: 2021-09-22 22:26:50 status_changed: 2010-10-17 08:10:39 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Rijntjes, M creators_name: Dettmers, C creators_name: Buchel, C creators_name: Kiebel, S creators_name: Frackowiak, RSJ creators_name: Weiller, C title: A blueprint for movement: functional and anatomical representations in the human motor system ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C07 divisions: D07 note: J SEP 15 235KB J NEUROSCI This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The license allows you to copy, distribute, and transmit the work, as well as adapting it. However, you must attribute the work to the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work), and cannot use the work for commercial purposes without prior permission of the author. If you alter or build upon this work, you can distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. abstract: Despite a clear somatotopic organization of the motor cortex, a movement can be learned with one extremity and performed with another. This suggests that there exists a limbindependent coding for movements. To dissociate brain regions coding for movement parameters from those relevant to the chosen effector, subjects wrote their signature with their dominant index finger and ipsilateral big toe, and we determined those areas activated by both conditions using functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results show that movement parameters for this highly trained movement are stored in secondary sensorimotor cortices of the extremity with which it is usually performed, i.e., the dominant hand, including dorsal and ventral lateral premotor cortices. These areas can be accessed by the foot and are therefore functionally independent from the primary representation of the effector. Thus, somatotopy in secondary structures in the human motor system seems to be defined functionally, and not on the basis of anatomical representations. date: 1999 vfaculties: VFBRS oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_source: Manually entered elements_id: 39095 lyricists_name: Frackowiak, Richard lyricists_id: RSJFR43 full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Neuroscience volume: 19 number: 18 pagerange: 8043 - 8048 issn: 0270-6474 citation: Rijntjes, M; Dettmers, C; Buchel, C; Kiebel, S; Frackowiak, RSJ; Weiller, C; (1999) A blueprint for movement: functional and anatomical representations in the human motor system. Journal of Neuroscience , 19 (18) 8043 - 8048. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/72841/1/8043.full.pdf