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Vision Modulates Somatosensory Cortical Processing
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Over 150 years ago, E.H. Weber declared that experience showed that tactile acuity was not affected by viewing the stimulated body part. However, more recent investigations suggest that cross-modal links do exist between the senses. Viewing the stimulated body site improves performance on tactile discrimination and detection tasks and enhances tactile acuity. Here, we show that vision modulates somatosensory cortex activity, as measured by somatosensory event-related potentials (ERPs). This modulation is greatest when tactile stimulation is task relevant. Visual modulation is not present in the P50 component reflecting the primary afferent input to the cortex but appears in the subsequent N80 component, which has also been localized to SI, the primary somatosensory cortex. Furthermore, we replicate previous findings that noninformative vision improves spatial acuity. These results are consistent with a hypothesis that vision modulates cortical processing of tactile stimuli via back projections from multimodal cortical areas. Several neurophysiological studies suggest that primary and secondary somatosensory cortex (SI and SII, respectively) activity can be modulated by spatial and tactile attention and by visual cues. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of direct modulation of somatosensory cortex activity by a noninformative view of the stimulated body site with concomitant enhancement of tactile acuity in normal subjects.
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“the vision of a body part being touched is known to pre-activate the corresponding somatotopic region in PoCG, thus influencing tactile sensation (Taylor-Clarke et al. 2002; Blakemore et al. 2005; Longo et al. 2011; Schaefer et al. 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Taylor-Clarke, M., Kennett, S., & Haggard, P.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Taylor-Clarke, Marisa
- Venue
- Current Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2002-02
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 233-236
- ISSN
- 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2065691226
- Cited by
- 309
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- visual-tactile interaction, cross-modal interaction, somatosensory cortex, tactile acuity, somatosensory event-related potentials, P50, primary somatosensory cortex, secondary somatosensory cortex, spatial acuity, visual cues, tactile discrimination
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Cues, Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory, Humans, Middle Aged, Photic Stimulation, Physical Stimulation, Somatosensory Cortex, Touch, Vision, Ocular, Feedback, Physiological
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