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Brain mechanisms linking language processing and open motor skill training

Given the discovery of a distributed language and motor functional network, surprisingly few studies have explored whether language processing is related to motor skill training. To address this issue, the present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare whole-brain activation bet...

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Autores principales: Wang, Yixuan, Ji, Qingchun, Zhou, Chenglin, Wang, Yingying
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9386041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992938
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.911894
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author Wang, Yixuan
Ji, Qingchun
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Wang, Yingying
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description Given the discovery of a distributed language and motor functional network, surprisingly few studies have explored whether language processing is related to motor skill training. To address this issue, the present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare whole-brain activation between nonexperts and experts in table tennis, an open skill sport in which players make rapid decisions in response to an ever-changing environment. Whole-brain activation was assessed in 30 expert table tennis players with more than 7 years’ experience and 35 age-matched nonexpert college students while they performed both a size and a semantic judgment task of words presented on a monitor. Compared with nonexperts, expert table tennis players showed greater activation in the left middle occipital gyrus and right precuneus while judging the size of the words versus during baseline fixation. They also showed greater activation in the left lingual gyrus during the semantic judgment task versus during baseline fixation. Our findings indicate that the visual regions engaged in language processing are associated with open motor skill training.
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spelling pubmed-93860412022-08-19 Brain mechanisms linking language processing and open motor skill training Wang, Yixuan Ji, Qingchun Zhou, Chenglin Wang, Yingying Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Given the discovery of a distributed language and motor functional network, surprisingly few studies have explored whether language processing is related to motor skill training. To address this issue, the present study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare whole-brain activation between nonexperts and experts in table tennis, an open skill sport in which players make rapid decisions in response to an ever-changing environment. Whole-brain activation was assessed in 30 expert table tennis players with more than 7 years’ experience and 35 age-matched nonexpert college students while they performed both a size and a semantic judgment task of words presented on a monitor. Compared with nonexperts, expert table tennis players showed greater activation in the left middle occipital gyrus and right precuneus while judging the size of the words versus during baseline fixation. They also showed greater activation in the left lingual gyrus during the semantic judgment task versus during baseline fixation. Our findings indicate that the visual regions engaged in language processing are associated with open motor skill training. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9386041/ /pubmed/35992938 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.911894 Text en Copyright © 2022 Wang, Ji, Zhou and Wang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Brain mechanisms linking language processing and open motor skill training
title Brain mechanisms linking language processing and open motor skill training
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title_short Brain mechanisms linking language processing and open motor skill training
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9386041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992938
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.911894
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