How are cognition and movement control related to each other?
Maurizio Gentilucci a1andSergio Chieffi a2 a1 Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Parma, 43100 Parma, Italy
gentiluc@unipr.it a2 Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Università di Napoli II, 80100 Naples, Italy
sergio.chieffi@unina2.it
Abstract
Our commentary focuses, first, on Glover's proposal that only motor planning is sensitive to cognitive aspects of the target object, whereas the on-line control is completely immune to them. We present behavioural data showing that movement phases traditionally (and by Glover) thought to be under on-line control, are also modulated by object cognitive aspects. Next, we present data showing that some aspects of cognition can be coded by means of movement planning. We propose a reformulation of Glover's theory to include both an influence of cognition on on-line movement control, and a mutual influence between motor planning and some aspects of cognition.
