Why i tense up when you watch me: Inferior parietal cortex mediates an audience's influence on motor performance

Yoshie, M., Nagai, Y., Critchley, H.D. and Harrison, N.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9584-3769 2016. Why i tense up when you watch me: Inferior parietal cortex mediates an audience's influence on motor performance. Scientific Reports 6 , -. 10.1038/srep19305

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Abstract

The presence of an evaluative audience can alter skilled motor performance through changes in force output. To investigate how this is mediated within the brain, we emulated real-time social monitoring of participants’ performance of a fine grip task during functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging. We observed an increase in force output during social evaluation that was accompanied by focal reductions in activity within bilateral inferior parietal cortex. Moreover, deactivation of the left inferior parietal cortex predicted both inter- and intra-individual differences in socially-induced change in grip force. Social evaluation also enhanced activation within the posterior superior temporal sulcus, which conveys visual information about others’ actions to the inferior parietal cortex. Interestingly, functional connectivity between these two regions was attenuated by social evaluation. Our data suggest that social evaluation can vary force output through the altered engagement of inferior parietal cortex; a region implicated in sensorimotor integration necessary for object manipulation, and a component of the action-observation network which integrates and facilitates performance of observed actions. Social-evaluative situations may induce high-level representational incoherence between one’s own intentioned action and the perceived intention of others which, by uncoupling the dynamics of sensorimotor facilitation, could ultimately perturbe motor output.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Nature Publishing Group
ISSN:	2045-2322
Date of Acceptance:	10 December 2015
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 14:04
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/121506

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