The Common Rhythm of Action and Perception

Benedetto, Alessandro; Morrone, Maria Concetta; Tomassini, Alice

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“…Recent research has demonstrated the presence of visual oscillations synchronized with action onset (Benedetto et al, 2018;Benedetto et al, 2019;Benedetto & Morrone, 2017;Hogendoorn, 2016;Tomassini et al, 2017;Tomassini et al, 2015;Wutz et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2019). In particular, delta oscillations in visual sensitivity have been shown in contrast discrimination between highly salient stimuli (Benedetto & Morrone, 2017;Hogendoorn, 2016), phase-locked to saccadic events, likely reflecting a synchronization between endogenous visual neuronal rhythms and the oculomotor system.…”

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“…Consistent with the hypothesis of a strong link between sensorimotor integration and neural oscillations, it has been demonstrated that the phase of neural oscillations can predict reaction-time to perceptual events (Drewes & VanRullen, 2011;Lansing, 1957;Surwillo, 1961), and that a transient visual response can reset the phase of low-frequency tremor oscillations in peripheral muscles (Wood, Gu, Corneil, Gribble, & Goodale, 2015). This link between motor and visual rhythmic activity has been reinforced by Tomassini, Ambrogioni, Medendorp, and Maris (2017) who demonstrated that EEG theta-band oscillatory activity, measured seconds before the action onset, predicts visual performance in an Citation: Benedetto, A., & Morrone, M. C. (2019). Visual sensitivity and bias oscillate phase-locked to saccadic eye movements.…”

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“…A growing body of scientific literature shows that perceptual rhythmic oscillations are also synchronized with voluntary actions, and this synchronization can modulate several visual functions including visual contrast discrimination of salient stimuli (Benedetto & Morrone, 2017;Benedetto, Morrone, & Tomassini, 2019;Benedetto, Spinelli, & Morrone, 2016;Tomassini, Spinelli, Jacono, Sandini, & Morrone, 2015), visual attention (Hogendoorn, 2016), feature binding (Nakayama & Motoyoshi, 2019), and temporal integra-tion\segregation (Wutz, Muschter, van Koningsbruggen, Weisz, & Melcher, 2016). Consistent with the hypothesis of a strong link between sensorimotor integration and neural oscillations, it has been demonstrated that the phase of neural oscillations can predict reaction-time to perceptual events (Drewes & VanRullen, 2011;Lansing, 1957;Surwillo, 1961), and that a transient visual response can reset the phase of low-frequency tremor oscillations in peripheral muscles (Wood, Gu, Corneil, Gribble, & Goodale, 2015).…”

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Visual sensitivity and bias oscillate phase-locked to saccadic eye movements

Benedetto

Morrone

2019

Journal of Vision

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Oscillations in perceptual performance have been observed before and after a voluntary action, like hand, finger, and eye movements. In particular, discrimination accuracy of suprathreshold contrast stimuli oscillates in the delta range (2-3 Hz) phaselocked to saccadic eye movements. Importantly, saccadic suppression is embedded in phase with these long-lasting perceptual oscillations. It is debated whether these rhythmic modulations affect only appearance of high-contrast stimuli or whether absolute detection threshold is also modulated rhythmically. Here we measured location discrimination of a brief Gabor patch presented randomly between 1 s before and after a voluntary saccade and demonstrated that absolute contrast thresholds oscillated at a similar frequency to suprathreshold contrast discrimination. Importantly, saccadic suppression is also embedded in phase with absolute threshold oscillations. Interestingly, response bias was also found to oscillate at the same frequency in both tasks. However, the frequency was in the alpha range for bias, while it was in the delta range for sensitivity. These results demonstrate the presence of perisaccadic delta oscillations in visual sensitivity phase-locked to saccadic onset, and independent from response bias alpha oscillations. Overall, the present findings reinforce the suggestion of a leading role of oscillations in the temporal binding between eyemovement and visual processing timing.

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Visual sensitivity and bias oscillate phase-locked to saccadic eye movements

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2019

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“…The likely reason for this is that the brain's neuronal activity is inherently rhythmic, influencing both the generation of motor activity and the perception of sensory inputs (Buzsáki, 2006), which go hand in hand during active sensing. Previous studies (see (Benedetto et al, 2020) for a review), indicate that rhythmic motor sampling patterns are capable of adjusting neural excitability fluctuations in sensory brain regions to align with the rhythm of the motor production signals (Sperry, 1950). The alignment of rhythmic excitability fluctuations to some other, internal or external rhythmic process is termed neuronal entrainment.…”

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The role of motor and environmental visual rhythms in structuring auditory cortical excitability

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Barczak

McGinnis

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One of the ways we perceive our external world is through the process of active sensing in which biological sensors (e.g. fingers and eyes) sample the environment utilizing mostly rhythmic motor routines. Previous studies indicate that these motor sampling patterns modulate neuronal excitability in sensory brain regions by entraining brain rhythms, a process termed motor-initiated entrainment. Additionally, rhythms of the external environment, that are independent of internal motor commands, are also capable of entraining rhythmic brain activity. The goal of our study was twofold. First, we aimed to investigate the properties of motor-initiated entrainment in the auditory system using the most prominent motor sampling pattern in primates, eye movements. Second, we wanted to determine whether/how motor-initiated entrainment by eye movements interacts with visual environmental entrainment. By examining laminar profiles of neuronal ensemble activity in the primary auditory cortex of non-human primates, we found that while motor-initiated entrainment has a suppressive, visual environmental entrainment has an enhancive effect. We also found that the two processes are temporally coupled during free viewing, and their temporal relationship ensures that their effect on neuronal ensemble excitability is complementary rather than interfering. Taken together, our results provide strong evidence that motor and sensory systems continuously interact in orchestrating the brain's rhythmic context for the optimal sampling of our multisensory environment. 3

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“…Motor preparation and execution, such as finger tapping, button press, reaching or grasping actions and even isometric muscle contraction, can modulate the perception of visual stimuli (for a review see Benedetto et al, 2020). From hundreds of milliseconds before action onset (during motor preparation) to up to 1 second after action offset, visual sensitivity oscillates in synchrony with action onset at a frequency in the theta range (Benedetto et al, 2016;Tomassini et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2019).…”

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Predictive visuo-motor communication through neural oscillations

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SummaryAction and perception need to be coordinated continuously over time, and neural oscillations may be instrumental in achieving such synchronization. Here we demonstrate that behavioral visual discrimination and the BOLD activity of V1 oscillates rhythmically in the theta range (around 5 Hz), synchronized to motor action (button press). The oscillations are present in V1 even when participants do not make a visual discrimination, suggesting an automatic modulation in synchrony with action onset. The amplitude of the oscillation in V1 is predicted by the activity in M1 before action onset, and functional connectivity between V1 and M1 change as a function of stimulus-delay. The results are well modelled by considering that V1 BOLD is modulated by preparatory motor signal and by rhythmic gain modulation in phase with action onset. They suggest that synchronous oscillatory activity between V1 and M1 mediates the strong temporal binding fundamental for active visual perception.

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The Common Rhythm of Action and Perception

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Visual sensitivity and bias oscillate phase-locked to saccadic eye movements

Visual sensitivity and bias oscillate phase-locked to saccadic eye movements

The role of motor and environmental visual rhythms in structuring auditory cortical excitability

Predictive visuo-motor communication through neural oscillations

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