TY  - JOUR
AB  - We use our hands very frequently to interact with our environment. Neuropsychology together with lesion models and intracranial recordings and imaging work yielded important insights into the functional neuroanatomical correlates of grasping, one important function of our hands, pointing toward a functional parietofrontal brain network. Event-related potentials (ERPs) register directly electrical brain activity and are endowed with high temporal resolution but have long been assumed to be susceptible to movement artifacts. Recent work has shown that reliable ERPs can be obtained during movement execution. Here, we review the available ERP work on (uni) manual grasping actions. We discuss various ERP components and how they may be related to functional components of grasping according to traditional distinctions of manual actions such as planning and control phases. The ERP results are largely in line with the assumption of a parietofrontal network. But other questions remain, in particular regarding the temporal succession of frontal and parietal ERP effects. With the low number of ERP studies on grasping, not all ERP effects appear to be coherent with one another. Understanding the control of our hands may help to develop further neurocognitive theories of grasping and to make progress in prosthetics, rehabilitation or development of technical systems for support of human actions.
 Full text freely available under: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01996
DA  - 2016
DO  - 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01996
KW  - manual action
KW  - EEG
KW  - ERP
KW  - slow wave
KW  - cognition
KW  - action
LA  - eng
PY  - 2016
SN  - 1664-1078
T2  - Frontiers in Psychology
TI  - Neurophysiology of grasping actions: Evidence from ERPs
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29079439
Y2  - 2024-12-26T20:38:26
ER  -