Organization of action sequences and the role of the pre-SMA.
@article{Kennerley2004OrganizationOA, title={Organization of action sequences and the role of the pre-SMA.}, author={Steven Wayne Kennerley and K{\^o} Sakai and Matthew F. S. Rushworth}, journal={Journal of neurophysiology}, year={2004}, volume={91 2}, pages={ 978-93 } }
To understand the contribution of the human presupplementary motor area (pre-SMA) in sequential motor behavior, we performed a series of finger key-press experiments. Experiment 1 revealed that each subject had a spontaneous tendency to organize or "chunk" a long sequence into shorter components. We hypothesized that the pre-SMA might have a special role in initiating each chunk but not at other points during the sequence. Experiment 2 therefore examined the effect of 0.5-s, 10-Hz repetitive…
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