Wu Min, Schoenfeld Marleen J, Lindersson Carl, Braeutigam Sven, Zich Catharina, Stagg Charlotte J
Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TH, United Kingdom.
J Neurosci. 2025 May 28;45(22):e2187242025. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2187-24.2025.
Movement-related dynamics in the beta and gamma bands have been studied in relation to motor execution and learning during unimanual movements, but their roles in complex bimanual tasks remain largely unexplored. This study aimed to investigate how beta and gamma activity differs between unimanual and bimanual movements and how these neural signatures evolve during the learning process. Our motor task incorporated varying levels of bimanual interaction: unimanual, bimanual-equal, and bimanual-unequal. Magnetoencephalography data were recorded in healthy participants ( = 43, 27 females) during task performance, and beta and gamma activity was quantified. As expected, increasing task complexity from unimanual to bimanual-equal and then to bimanual-unequal movements resulted in slower and less accurate performance. Across all conditions, significant beta event-related desynchronization (ERD) and gamma event-related synchronization (ERS) were observed during movement, as well as beta ERS after movement. Bimanual movements exhibited greater beta ERD, beta ERS, and gamma ERS compared with unimanual movements. With practice, participants demonstrated faster and more accurate movements, accompanied by enhanced beta ERS responses. Furthermore, learning-related reductions in errors correlated with increases in beta ERS. These findings suggest the distinct behavioral and neural demands of unimanual versus bimanual movements and highlight the important role of beta activity in motor performance and learning.
在单手运动过程中,已经对β和γ频段中与运动相关的动力学进行了研究,涉及运动执行和学习,但它们在复杂双手任务中的作用在很大程度上仍未得到探索。本研究旨在调查单手运动和双手运动之间β和γ活动如何不同,以及这些神经特征在学习过程中如何演变。我们的运动任务包含不同程度的双手交互:单手、双手等力和双手不等力。在健康参与者(n = 43,27名女性)执行任务期间记录了脑磁图数据,并对β和γ活动进行了量化。正如预期的那样,从单手运动到双手等力运动,再到双手不等力运动,任务复杂性的增加导致表现变慢且准确性降低。在所有条件下,在运动期间均观察到显著的β事件相关去同步化(ERD)和γ事件相关同步化(ERS),以及运动后的β ERS。与单手运动相比,双手运动表现出更大的β ERD、β ERS和γ ERS。通过练习,参与者表现出更快、更准确的运动,同时伴有增强的β ERS反应。此外,与学习相关的错误减少与β ERS的增加相关。这些发现表明单手运动与双手运动在行为和神经需求上存在差异,并突出了β活动在运动表现和学习中的重要作用。