オオバヤシ　シゲル   OBAYASHI Shigeru   大林　茂    所属   埼玉医科大学  医学部 総合医療センター　リハビリテーション科    職種   教授
論文種別	学術雑誌(原著)
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Functional organization of monkey brain for abstract operation.
掲載誌名	正式名：Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior ISSNコード：00109452
出版社	ELSEVIER MASSON
巻・号・頁	43(3),389-96頁
著者・共著者	Shigeru Obayashi,Ryohei Matsumoto,Tetsuya Suhara,Yuji Nagai,Atsushi Iriki,Jun Maeda
発行年月	2007/04
概要	When humans manipulate a control device under operational rules, with the goal of indirectly controlling a remote tool to achieve a desired outcome, they may rely on the power of internal representation to organize individual moves of the controller and tool into a set of sequences by mapping the motor space among hand, controller and tool. We recently used functional brain imaging (PET) to investigate activations in monkey brain associated with joystick-controlled remote operation of a shovel to obtain food. Activated areas included the prefrontal cortex, posterior parietal cortex and cerebellum, regardless of the rules relating movements of the joystick to those of the shovel (Obayashi etal., 2004). If those areas are engaged in the mental manipulation of internal representation, then we should expect brain activity in the same regions during any similar remote operation, even with different controllers and/or operational rules. To address the above hypothesis in the current study, we used PET to measure regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) of two monkeys during a task in which they were required to control a shovel remotely (to fetch a food pellet) by manipulating dual dials. Co
DOI	10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70464-7
PMID	17533762