Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 11, No. 2, 114-121,
February 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
The Role of the Inferior Parietal Cortex in Linking the Tactile Perception and Manual Construction of Object Shapes
1 Institute of General Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, , 2 Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf and , 3 Institute of Medicine, Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in 12 healthy subjects to measure cerebral activation related to a set of higher order manual sensorimotor tasks performed in the absence of visual guidance. Purposeless manipulation of meaningless plasticine lumps served as a reference against which we contrasted two tasks where manual manipulation served a meaningful purpose, either the perception and recognition of three-dimensional shapes or the construction of such shapes out of an amorphous plasticine lump. These tasks were compared with the corresponding mental imagery of the modelling process which evokes the constructive concept but lacks concomitant sensorimotor input and output. Neural overlap was found in a bilateral activity increase in the posterior and anterior intraparietal sulcus area (IPS and AIP). Differential activation was seen in the supplementary and cingulate motor areas, the left M1 and the superior parietal lobe for modelling and in the left angular and ventral premotor cortex for imagery. Our data thus point to a congruent neural substrate for both perceptive and constructive object-oriented sensorimotor cognition in the AIP and posterior IPS. The leftward asymmetry of the inferior parietal activations, including the angular gyrus, during imagery of modelling along with the ventral premotor activations emphasize the close vicinity of the circuitry for cognitive manipulative motor behaviour and language.
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