Multimodal Sensory-Spatial Integration and Retrieval of Trained Motor Patterns for Body Coordination in Musicians and Dancers

Ladda, Aija Marie; Wallwork, Sarah B.; Lotze, Martín

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.576120

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“…Integrated sensory information can describe the position, size, weight, shape, and displacement speed of objects, further optimizing action plans through continuous motor sensory feedback [ 55 ]. The simultaneous multi-sensory stimulation of the vestibule, muscles, joints, skin, and the visual, auditory, and olfactory senses forms multimodal information processing patterns and accelerates the formation of motor representations for better postural control [ 56 , 57 ]. Based on the principle of sensory integration, the MAST method aims for multi-sensory stimulation and increases constant interactions among the senses.…”

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Effects of Chinese Martial Arts on Motor Skills in Children between 5 and 6 Years of Age: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Children’s motor skills can be fully developed only by the appropriate stimulation of physical activities and the environment, and the poor development of motor skills greatly increases the risk of cognitive impairment, obesity, and movement coordination disorder. This study aimed to examine the effects of Chinese martial arts on the motor skills of preschool children aged 5–6 years through a randomized controlled trial. A total of 87 children aged 5–6 years served as participants in a martial arts sensory teaching group (MAST, n = 29), a martial arts traditional teaching group (MATT, n = 29), and a free activity group (FA, n = 29). The interventions were conducted twice weekly for a total of 10 weeks, with each session lasting 30 min. Children’s motor skills were assessed before and after the intervention using the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC-2). The results indicated that the balance index scores in the MAST (p < 0.001) and MATT (p = 0.014) groups were significantly higher than those in the FA and that the MAST score was significantly higher than the MATT (p = 0.004). Meanwhile, the MAST was significantly higher in total scores on motor skills when compared to the FA (p = 0.039), and the MAST showed significantly higher scores on manual dexterity when compared to both the MATT (p = 0.021) and FA (p = 0.011). Chinese martial arts can significantly improve the balance ability of preschool children, and the MAST method was found to be better than that of the MATT. Meanwhile, the MAST had good potential for the development of preschool children’s manual dexterity and their overall level of motor skills.

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Effects of Chinese Martial Arts on Motor Skills in Children between 5 and 6 Years of Age: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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“…No previous research has suggested that IPS0 is part of the motion-processing pathway. Instead, IPS0 is a highly multisensory area and frequently appears in studies of working memory (Bray et al 2015; Brigadoi et al 2017), motor planning (Buneo and Andersen 2006), spatial representation (Makin, Holmes, and Zohary 2007), and multimodal integration (Regenbogen et al 2018; Ladda, Wallwork, and Lotze 2020). Future work is needed to determine if the areas involvement is purely visual, or contains a representation of 3D space across multiple different modalities, such as 3D motion auditory cues.…”

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Identifying cortical areas that underlie the transformation from retinal to world motion signals

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Landy

Rokers

2022

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Accurate motion perception requires that the visual system integrate the retinal motion signals received by the two eyes into a single representation of 3D (i.e., world) motion. However, most experimental paradigms limit the motion stimuli to the fronto-parallel plane (i.e., 2D motion) and are thus unable to dissociate retinal and world motion signals. Here, we used stereoscopic displays to present separate motion signals to the two eyes and examined their representation in visual cortex using fMRI. Specifically, we presented random-dot motion stimuli that produced percepts of various 3D motion trajectories. We also presented control stimuli that contained the same retinal motion energy in the two eyes but were inconsistent with any 3D motion trajectory. We decoded the stimuli from BOLD activity using a probabilistic decoding algorithm. We found that 3D motion direction can be reliably decoded in three major clusters in the human visual system. In early visual cortex (V1-V3), we found no significant difference in decoding performance between the 3D motion and control stimuli, suggesting that these areas represent retinal motion rather than world motion signals. In voxels in and surrounding hMT and IPS0 however, decoding performance was consistently superior for 3D motion compared to control stimuli. Our results reveal the parts of the visual processing hierarchy that are critical for the transformation of retinal into world motion signals and suggest a role for IPS0 in the representation of 3D motion signals, in addition to its sensitivity to 3D object structure and static depth.

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“…Trimodal neurons in the ventral premotor cortex (PMv) were proposed [ 30 ], and Makin et al [ 33 ] proposed involved trimodal neurons in PMC and intra-parietal sulcus (IPS) where visual, tactile, and proprioceptive afferents are integrated within one neuron. More recently, experiments found further brain areas, such as the lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC) and the intraparietal sulcus (IPS), that provide resources for specialized motor control in dance and music [ 59 ]. An additional spinal contribution to the modulation of the MEPs cannot be completely ruled out, because a modulated discharge rate of spindle afferents may be crucial when the muscle is progressively lengthened [ 60 , 61 , 62 ].…”

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Multimodal Sensorimotor Integration of Visual and Kinaesthetic Afferents Modulates Motor Circuits in Humans

2021

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Optimal motor control requires the effective integration of multi-modal information. Visual information of movement performed by others even enhances potentials in the upper motor neurons through the mirror-neuron system. On the other hand, it is known that motor control is intimately associated with afferent proprioceptive information. Kinaesthetic information is also generated by passive, external-driven movements. In the context of sensory integration, it is an important question how such passive kinaesthetic information and visually perceived movements are integrated. We studied the effects of visual and kinaesthetic information in combination, as well as isolated, on sensorimotor integration, compared to a control condition. For this, we measured the change in the excitability of the motor cortex (M1) using low-intensity Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). We hypothesised that both visual motoneurons and kinaesthetic motoneurons enhance the excitability of motor responses. We found that passive wrist movements increase the motor excitability, suggesting that kinaesthetic motoneurons do exist. The kinaesthetic influence on the motor threshold was even stronger than the visual information. Moreover, the simultaneous visual and passive kinaesthetic information increased the cortical excitability more than each of them independently. Thus, for the first time, we found evidence for the integration of passive kinaesthetic- and visual-sensory stimuli.

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Multimodal Sensory-Spatial Integration and Retrieval of Trained Motor Patterns for Body Coordination in Musicians and Dancers

Cited by 12 publications

References 101 publications

Effects of Chinese Martial Arts on Motor Skills in Children between 5 and 6 Years of Age: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Effects of Chinese Martial Arts on Motor Skills in Children between 5 and 6 Years of Age: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Identifying cortical areas that underlie the transformation from retinal to world motion signals

Multimodal Sensorimotor Integration of Visual and Kinaesthetic Afferents Modulates Motor Circuits in Humans

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