Passingham R E
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.
Ciba Found Symp. 1987;132:151-64. doi: 10.1002/9780470513545.ch10.
It is argued that the cortical premotor areas are concerned with the conditions for action. Actions are based both on facts about the outside world and about the actions of the animal itself. Observations on monkeys (Macaca fascicularis, Macaca mulatta) suggest that the arcuate premotor area directs actions on the basis of visual cues about the outside environment and that the supplementary motor area directs actions on the basis of proprioceptive cues concerning the animal's own actions.
有人认为，皮质运动前区与行动条件有关。行动既基于关于外部世界的事实，也基于动物自身的行动。对猕猴（食蟹猴、恒河猴）的观察表明，弓状运动前区基于关于外部环境的视觉线索来指导行动，而辅助运动区则基于关于动物自身行动的本体感觉线索来指导行动。
