Modulation of somatosensory perception by motor intention

Parkinson, Amy; Plukaard, Sarah; Pears, Sally; Newport, Roger; Dijkerman, Chris; Jackson, Stephen R.

doi:10.1080/17588928.2010.525627

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“…A recent study (Parkinson et al. ) reports data that were consistent with our contention that movement planning attenuates tactile perception. Parkinson et al.…”

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confidence: 90%

Tactile gating in a reaching and grasping task

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A multitude of events bombard our sensory systems at every moment of our lives. Thus, it is important for the sensory cortex to gate unimportant events. Tactile suppression is a well‐known phenomenon defined as a reduced ability to detect tactile events on the skin before and during movement. Previous experiments found detection rates decrease just prior to and during finger abduction, and decrease according to the proximity of the moving effector. This study examined how tactile detection changes during a reach to grasp. Fourteen human participants used their right hand to reach and grasp a cylinder. Tactors were attached to the index finger, the fifth digit, and the forearm of both the right and left arm and vibrated at various epochs relative to a “go” tone. Results showed that detection rates at the forearm decreased before movement onset; whereas at the right index finger, right fifth digit and at the left index finger, left fifth digit, and forearm sites did not decrease like in the right forearm. These results indicate that the task affects gating dynamics in a temporally‐ and contextually dependent manner and implies that feed‐forward motor planning processes can modify sensory signals.

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“…A recent study (Parkinson et al. ) reports data that were consistent with our contention that movement planning attenuates tactile perception. Parkinson et al.…”

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confidence: 90%

Tactile gating in a reaching and grasping task

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“…Consistent with this view, recent functional brain-imaging studies have demonstrated that punctate somatosensory stimulation of the upper limbs produces significant increases in brain activity--blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response)--bilaterally within the insular cortex (e.g., Jackson, Parkinson, Pears, & Nam, 2011;Parkinson et al, 2011). However, neurophysiological studies suggest that the insular cortex may play a particularly important role in representing the emotional significance of somatosensory signals.…”

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On the functional anatomy of the urge-for-action

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Parkinson

Kim

et al. 2011

Cognitive Neuroscience

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Several common neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g., obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette syndrome (TS), autistic spectrum disorder) are associated with unpleasant bodily sensations that are perceived as an urge for action. Similarly, many of our everyday behaviors are also characterized by bodily sensations that we experience as urges for action. Where do these urges originate? In this paper, we consider the nature and the functional anatomy of "urges-for-action," both in the context of everyday behaviors such as yawning, swallowing, and micturition, and in relation to clinical disorders in which the urge-for-action is considered pathological and substantially interferes with activities of daily living (e.g., TS). We review previous frameworks for thinking about behavioral urges and demonstrate that there is considerable overlap between the functional anatomy of urges associated with everyday behaviors such as swallowing, yawning, and micturition, and those urges associated with the generation of tics in TS. Specifically, we show that the limbic sensory and motor regions--insula and mid-cingulate cortex--are common to all of these behaviors, and we argue that this "motivation-for-action" network should be considered distinct from an "intentional action" network, associated with regions of premotor and parietal cortex, which may be responsible for the perception of "willed intention" during the execution of goal-directed actions.Keywords: Urge; Urge-for-action; Habit; Insula; Tourette syndrome; Action.Many of our everyday behaviors are characterized by bodily sensations that we experience either as an urge or a desire for action. For instance, we may experience a sensation that our bladder is full that is accompanied, to a greater or lesser extent, by an urge or desire to urinate (micturate). In extreme cases, this sense of fullness can be quite uncomfortable and the urge to urinate can be hard to suppress. Similarly, we may experience a tickle in our throat that is associated with an urge to cough or to swallow that can also be difficult to suppress voluntarily.However, not all urges for action are necessarily preceded by bodily sensations of which we are aware. For example, we may suddenly experience a strong urge to yawn, or even find ourselves yawning, without being aware of a sensory "trigger" for the action. In this paper, we consider the nature and the functional anatomy of these "urges-for-action," both in the context of everyday behaviors such as yawning, swallowing, and urinating, and in relation to clinical disorders in which the urgefor-action is considered pathological and substantially COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 2011, 2 (3-4), Commentaries, and Reply) Correspondence should be addressed to: Stephen R. Jackson, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. E-mail: stephen.jackson@nottingham.ac.uk This research was supported in part by grants from the Medical Research Council (G0901321), and by the WCU (World Class University) program through the National Research Foundatio...

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“…This phenomenon is typically called gating or suppression of the sensory input. It was explained by the reduction of somatosensory evoked potentials (Rushton et al 1981;Duysens et al 1995;Staines et al 2000;Seki and Fetz 2012), increase in electrocutaneous detection thresholds (Angel and Malenka 1982;Chapman et al 1987;Williams et al 1998;Chapman 2000, 2002), reduction of the spike responses in first-order interneurons (Seki et al 2003), and decrease in BOLD (bloodoxygen-level-dependent) signal during fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) (Parkinson et al 2011). Rushton et al (1981) showed early on that secondary evoked potentials are suppressed with both active and passive movement, in which the participants moved their fingers against constant force or their fingers were moved by a motor, respectively, at constant speed.…”

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Effects of passive and active movement on vibrotactile detection thresholds of the Pacinian channel and forward masking

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Toker

Özkan

et al. 2015

Somatosensory & Motor Research

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We investigated the gating effect of passive and active movement on the vibrotactile detection thresholds of the Pacinian (P) psychophysical channel and forward masking. Previous work on gating mostly used electrocutaneous stimulation and did not allow focusing on tactile submodalities. Ten healthy adults participated in our study. Passive movement was achieved by swinging a platform, on which the participant's stimulated hand was attached, manually by a trained operator. The root-mean-square value of the movement speed was kept in a narrow range (slow: 10-20 cm/s, fast: 50-60 cm/s). Active movement was performed by the participant him-/herself using the same apparatus. The tactile stimuli consisted of 250-Hz sinusoidal mechanical vibrations, which were generated by a shaker mounted on the movement platform and applied to the middle fingertip. In the forward-masking experiments, a high-level masking stimulus preceded the test stimulus. Each movement condition was tested separately in a two-interval forced-choice detection task. Both passive and active movement caused a robust gating effect, that is, elevation of thresholds, in the fast speed range. Statistically significant change of thresholds was not found in slow movement conditions. Passive movement yielded higher thresholds than those measured during active movement, but this could not be confirmed statistically. On the other hand, the effect of forward masking was approximately constant as the movement condition varied. These results imply that gating depends on both peripheral and central factors in the P channel. Active movement may have some facilitatory role and produce less gating. Additionally, the results support the hypothesis regarding a critical speed for gating, which may be relevant for daily situations involving vibrations transmitted through grasped objects and for manual exploration.

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Modulation of somatosensory perception by motor intention

Cited by 22 publications

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Tactile gating in a reaching and grasping task

Tactile gating in a reaching and grasping task

On the functional anatomy of the urge-for-action

Effects of passive and active movement on vibrotactile detection thresholds of the Pacinian channel and forward masking

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