StuMeikle wrote:
> if I were to watch someone's brain using PET imaging , or some form of
> imaging, and that person were to (eg) move their arms, I guess part of the
> brain would 'light up' when they did this. if they then thought about
> moving their arms, but did not actually move them, would this same area
> light up, or is thinking and imagining completely separate from the actual
> doing ??
I was at the Human Brain Mapping conference in Boston last week, and there
were numerous papers showing activation of primary sensory and motor areas
during mental imagery.
For example, Hodge et al, NeuroImage 3(3):S209, report activation of SI
and sometimes SII when imaging tactile stimulation of face or digits.
They used echoplanar fMRI on a GE 1.5 T machine.
-- Fred
