The contributions of vision and haptics to reaching and grasping

Stone, Kayla D.; Gonzalez, Claudia L. R.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01403

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“…It could be argued that, based on previous studies of left-handers, detection performance should be equally (rather than more) proficient, for leftward- versus rightward-oriented handles. There is some speculation, however, about the extent to which handedness is linked to manual grasping preferences (Stone & Gonzalez, 2015). For example, numerous studies have found that left-handers show either no hand preference, or sometimes a right-hand preference, for grasping (Gallivan et al, 2011; Gonzalez et al, 2006; Gonzalez & Goodale, 2009; Gonzalez et al, 2007; Main & Carey, 2014) –although it is unclear to what extent these results reflect a dominant role of the left-hemisphere in visuomotor control (Frey, Funnell, Gerry, & Gazzaniga, 2005; Goodale, 1988), versus the influence of long-term environmental pressures on left-handers.…”

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Action properties of object images facilitate visual search.

Gómez¹,

Snow²

2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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There is mounting evidence that constraints from action can influence the early stages of object selection, even in the absence of any explicit preparation for action. Here, we examined whether action properties of images can influence visual search, and whether such effects were modulated by hand preference. Observers searched for an oddball target among three distractors. The search arrays consisted either of images of graspable ‘handles’ (‘action-related’ stimuli), or images that were otherwise identical to the handles but in which the semicircular fulcrum element was re-oriented so that the stimuli no longer looked like graspable objects (‘non-action-related’ stimuli). In Experiment 1, right-handed observers, who have been shown previously to prefer to use the right hand over the left for manual tasks, were faster to detect targets in action-related versus non-action-related arrays, and showed a response time (RT) advantage for rightward- versus leftward-oriented action-related handles. In Experiment 2, left-handed observers, who have been shown to use the left and right hands relatively equally in manual tasks, were also faster to detect targets in the action-related versus non-action-related arrays, but RTs were equally fast for rightward- and leftward-oriented handle targets. Together, or results suggest that action properties in images, and constraints for action imposed by preferences for manual interaction with objects, can influence attentional selection in the context of visual search.

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Action properties of object images facilitate visual search.

Gómez¹,

Snow²

2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…While the importance of vision for action planning and execution has long been recognized (Helmholtz, 1867/1962 ), the role of the haptic sense for critical daily interactions with objects has received considerably less attention. While this gap has been recently narrowed (Dijkerman and de Haan, 2007 ) and more ecologically valid paradigms are being used and considered (Stone and Gonzalez, 2015 ), there is still a substantial work to be done in the domain of tactile processing and haptic perception (cf. Snow et al, 2015 ), as well as in the area of haptically-guided actions.…”

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“…Ungerleider and Mishkin, 1982 ). Of course, purely sensorimotor and/or kinesthetic information (e.g., Fiehler et al, 2008 ) must be also incorporated in the functioning of the dorsal action stream (Goodale and Milner, 1992 ) for the guidance of such motor skills (For a recent review on the contributions of visual and haptic information to reaching and grasping see Stone and Gonzalez, 2015 ; see also a review on somatosensory processes involved in perception and action by Dijkerman and de Haan, 2007 ).…”

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Haptically Guided Grasping. fMRI Shows Right-Hemisphere Parietal Stimulus Encoding, and Bilateral Dorso-Ventral Parietal Gradients of Object- and Action-Related Processing during Grasp Execution

Marangon

Kubiak

Króliczak

2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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The neural bases of haptically-guided grasp planning and execution are largely unknown, especially for stimuli having no visual representations. Therefore, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor brain activity during haptic exploration of novel 3D complex objects, subsequent grasp planning, and the execution of the pre-planned grasps. Haptic object exploration, involving extraction of shape, orientation, and length of the to-be-grasped targets, was associated with the fronto-parietal, temporo-occipital, and insular cortex activity. Yet, only the anterior divisions of the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) of the right hemisphere were significantly more engaged in exploration of complex objects (vs. simple control disks). None of these regions were re-recruited during the planning phase. Even more surprisingly, the left-hemisphere intraparietal, temporal, and occipital areas that were significantly invoked for grasp planning did not show sensitivity to object features. Finally, grasp execution, involving the re-recruitment of the critical right-hemisphere PPC clusters, was also significantly associated with two kinds of bilateral parieto-frontal processes. The first represents transformations of grasp-relevant target features and is linked to the dorso-dorsal (lateral and medial) parieto-frontal networks. The second monitors grasp kinematics and belongs to the ventro-dorsal networks. Indeed, signal modulations associated with these distinct functions follow dorso-ventral gradients, with left aIPS showing significant sensitivity to both target features and the characteristics of the required grasp. Thus, our results from the haptic domain are consistent with the notion that the parietal processing for action guidance reflects primarily transformations from object-related to effector-related coding, and these mechanisms are rather independent of sensory input modality.

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“…Peripheral sensory feedback plays a crucial role in the correct execution of a voluntary movement (Nowak et al, 2003, 2004; Weiss et al, 2011; Stone and Gonzalez, 2015). A continuously updated cyclic sensorimotor integration process is required to successfully complete a motor task.…”

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Temporary Nerve Block at Selected Digits Revealed Hand Motor Deficits in Grasping Tasks

Carteron

McPartlan

Gioeli

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Peripheral sensory feedback plays a crucial role in ensuring correct motor execution throughout hand grasp control. Previous studies utilized local anesthesia to deprive somatosensory feedback in the digits or hand, observations included sensorimotor deficits at both corticospinal and peripheral levels. However, the questions of how the disturbed and intact sensory input integrate and interact with each other to assist the motor program execution, and whether the motor coordination based on motor output variability between affected and non-affected elements (e.g., digits) becomes interfered by the local sensory deficiency, have not been answered. The current study aims to investigate the effect of peripheral deafferentation through digital nerve blocks at selective digits on motor performance and motor coordination in grasp control. Our results suggested that the absence of somatosensory information induced motor deficits in hand grasp control, as evidenced by reduced maximal force production ability in both local and non-local digits, impairment of force and moment control during object lift and hold, and attenuated motor synergies in stabilizing task performance variables, namely the tangential force and moment of force. These findings implied that individual sensory input is shared across all the digits and the disturbed signal from local sensory channel(s) has a more comprehensive impact on the process of the motor output execution in the sensorimotor integration process. Additionally, a feedback control mechanism with a sensation-based component resides in the formation process for the motor covariation structure.

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The contributions of vision and haptics to reaching and grasping

Cited by 29 publications

References 301 publications

Action properties of object images facilitate visual search.

Action properties of object images facilitate visual search.

Haptically Guided Grasping. fMRI Shows Right-Hemisphere Parietal Stimulus Encoding, and Bilateral Dorso-Ventral Parietal Gradients of Object- and Action-Related Processing during Grasp Execution

Temporary Nerve Block at Selected Digits Revealed Hand Motor Deficits in Grasping Tasks

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