Local field potentials in the parietal reach region reveal mechanisms of bimanual coordination

Eric Mooshagian (), Charles D. Holmes and Lawrence H. Snyder ()
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Eric Mooshagian: Washington University School of Medicine
Charles D. Holmes: Washington University in St. Louis
Lawrence H. Snyder: Washington University School of Medicine

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: Abstract Primates use their arms in complex ways that frequently require coordination between the two arms. Yet the planning of bimanual movements has not been well-studied. We recorded spikes and local field potentials (LFP) from the parietal reach region (PRR) in both hemispheres simultaneously while monkeys planned and executed unimanual and bimanual reaches. From analyses of interhemispheric LFP-LFP and spike-LFP coherence, we found that task-specific information is shared across hemispheres in a frequency-specific manner. This shared information could arise from common input or from direct communication. The population average unit activity in PRR, representing PRR output, encodes only planned contralateral arm movements while beta-band LFP power, a putative PRR input, reflects the pattern of planned bimanual movement. A parsimonious interpretation of these data is that PRR integrates information about the movement of the left and right limbs, perhaps in service of bimanual coordination.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22701-3

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