H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2023

GRINP · Action-based routes for numbers: unveiling the core networks of reaching, grasping and number processing in brain damaged and healthy individuals.

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-03-02 → 2023-11-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 275 210 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Връзката между работата на мозъка при броенето и при движенията на ръцете, като например хващането на предмети, се анализира при здрави хора и пациенти след инсулт. Това помага за създаването на нови методи за обучение и рехабилитация на когнитивните процеси.

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Резултати накратко

Action-based routes for numbers: unveiling the core networks of reaching, grasping and number processing in brain damaged and healthy individuals.

We learn to count and understand number magnitude through sensorimotor experiences, such as manipulating objects of different size, estimating sets of items, counting, and making computations with the fingers. When we perform simple numerical tasks (e.g., comparing numbers magnitude) there are many brain areas that are involved. Interestingly, some of these areas are also involved in programming and executing motor actions, such as reaching and grasping objects. What is the degree of overlap between motor and number networks? What happens when areas within this common network are damaged, e.g., following a stroke? Through the GRINP project I have investigated behavioural interactions and neuroanatomical overlap between processes of number, reach and grasp, as well as impairment resulting from lesions involving brain areas common to number, and hand motor action. Understanding how motor and number processes are related substantiates the idea that cognition and action are highly interconnected. New protocols for the potentiation of numerical abilities can be implemented, based on the idea that it is possible to impact the understanding and use of number concepts through action-based interventions. Importantly, disclosing the common brain network between action and number triggers research on the degree of functional specificity of brain areas and networks, and on new approaches for education and rehabilitation of cognitive processes which take into account interindividual variability. Overall, the GRINP project have succeeded in defining where in the brain the processing of number magnitude recruits the same sensorimotor network involved in planning and executing hand movements, as well as understanding how a brain lesion in these common areas lead to cognitive impairment in number processing and hand action.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Grasping and Reaching In Number Processing (GRINP) is focused on the study of the neural underpinnings of number processing and its impairment. Number-related deficits can dramatically affect everyday life. Nonetheless, this impairment is often marginally considered in clinical practice, possibly because the complex nature of numerical disorders makes their diagnosis and rehabilitation quite hard. GRINP builds upon action-based theories of cognition - considering many aspects of human cognition as built on motor action - and on the idea that the neural bases for abstract concepts representation are networks of functionally-related recycled mechanisms. Through a comprehensive approach which couples clinical (neuropsychological) with neuroimaging methods (magnetoencephalography), GRINP tests whether number magnitude recruits the same sensorimotor network involved in planning and executing hand movements. GRINP is timely because it relates the cognitive aspects of number and action with the study of their neural dynamics; GRINP is innovative because it promotes at different levels (scientific, clinical, societal) an action-based approach for the understanding of cognitive impairment. GRINP is based on the convergence between the solid expertise of the Fellow in numerical cognition and behavioural research methods, and the long lasting tradition of the Host in neuropsychological and neuroimaging training and research. GRINP will allow the Fellow to restart research in her native country after more than five years of international research/teaching experience and a maternity break. Thanks to the planned training on advanced neuropsychological (voxel-based lesion symptom mapping, brain tractography) and neuroimaging methods (functional connectivity) the Fellow will broaden her expertise from experimental psychology to cognitive neuroscience, putting the bases for a successful long-term career plan.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · PadovaКоординаторИталия