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Individual Differences in Subconscious Motor Control Predicted by GABA Concentration in SMA

Frederic Boy Orcid Logo, C. John Evans, Richard A.E. Edden, Krish D. Singh, Masud Husain, Petroc Sumner

Current Biology, Volume: 20, Issue: 19, Pages: 1779 - 1785

Swansea University Author: Frederic Boy Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.cub.2010.09.003

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Subliminal visual stimuli affect motor planning [1], but the size of such effects differs greatly between individuals [2, 3]. Here, we investigated whether such variation may be related to neurochemical differences between people. Cortical responsiveness is expected to be lower under the influence o...

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ISSN: 0960-9822
Published: 2010
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description Subliminal visual stimuli affect motor planning [1], but the size of such effects differs greatly between individuals [2, 3]. Here, we investigated whether such variation may be related to neurochemical differences between people. Cortical responsiveness is expected to be lower under the influence of more of the main inhibitory neurotransmitter, GABA [4]. Thus, we hypothesized that, if an individual has more GABA in the supplementary motor area (SMA)—a region previously associated with automatic motor control [5]—this would result in smaller subliminal effects. We measured the reversed masked prime—or negative compat- ibility—effect, and found that it correlated strongly with GABA concentration, measured with magnetic resonance spectroscopy. This occurred specifically in the SMA region, and not in other regions from which spectroscopy measure- ments were taken. We replicated these results in an inde- pendent cohort: more GABA in the SMA region is reliably associated with smaller effect size. These findings suggest that, across individuals, the responsiveness of subcon- scious motor mechanisms is related to GABA concentration in the SMA.
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