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Kufer K, Schmitter CV, Kircher T, Straube B. Temporal recalibration in response to delayed visual feedback of active versus passive actions: an fMRI study. Sci Rep 2024; 14:4632. [PMID: 38409306 PMCID: PMC10897428 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54660-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
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The brain can adapt its expectations about the relative timing of actions and their sensory outcomes in a process known as temporal recalibration. This might occur as the recalibration of timing between the sensory (e.g. visual) outcome and (1) the motor act (sensorimotor) or (2) tactile/proprioceptive information (inter-sensory). This fMRI recalibration study investigated sensorimotor contributions to temporal recalibration by comparing active and passive conditions. Subjects were repeatedly exposed to delayed (150 ms) or undelayed visual stimuli, triggered by active or passive button presses. Recalibration effects were tested in delay detection tasks, including visual and auditory outcomes. We showed that both modalities were affected by visual recalibration. However, an active advantage was observed only in visual conditions. Recalibration was generally associated with the left cerebellum (lobules IV, V and vermis) while action related activation (active > passive) occurred in the right middle/superior frontal gyri during adaptation and test phases. Recalibration transfer from vision to audition was related to action specific activations in the cingulate cortex, the angular gyrus and left inferior frontal gyrus. Our data provide new insights in sensorimotor contributions to temporal recalibration via the middle/superior frontal gyri and inter-sensory contributions mediated by the cerebellum.
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Affiliation(s)
- Konstantin Kufer
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Strasse 8, 35039, Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), University of Marburg and Justus Liebig University Giessen, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse 6, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Strasse 8, 35039, Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), University of Marburg and Justus Liebig University Giessen, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse 6, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Strasse 8, 35039, Marburg, Germany
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), University of Marburg and Justus Liebig University Giessen, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse 6, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Rudolf-Bultmann-Strasse 8, 35039, Marburg, Germany.
- Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), University of Marburg and Justus Liebig University Giessen, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse 6, 35032, Marburg, Germany.
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No self-advantage in recognizing photographs of one's own hand: experimental and meta-analytic evidence. Exp Brain Res 2022; 240:2221-2233. [PMID: 35596072 PMCID: PMC9458563 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-022-06385-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Visually recognising one’s own body is important both for controlling movement and for one’s sense of self. Twenty previous studies asked healthy adults to make rapid recognition judgements about photographs of their own and other peoples’ hands. Some of these judgements involved explicit self-recognition: “Is this your hand or another person’s?” while others assessed self-recognition implicitly, comparing performance for self and other hands in tasks unrelated to self-other discrimination (e.g., left-versus-right; match-to-sample). We report five experiments with three groups of participants performing left-versus-right (Experiment 1) and self-versus-other discrimination tasks (Experiments 2 to 5). No evidence was found for better performance with self than with other stimuli, but some evidence was found for a self-disadvantage in the explicit task. Manipulating stimulus duration as a proxy for task difficulty revealed strong response biases in the explicit self-recognition task. Rather than discriminating between self and other stimuli, participants seem to treat self-other discrimination tasks as self-detection tasks, raising their criterion and consistently responding ‘not me’ when the task is difficult. A meta-analysis of 21 studies revealed no overall self-advantage, and suggested a publication bias for reports showing self-advantages in implicit tasks. Although this may appear counter-intuitive, we suggest that there may be no self-advantage in hand recognition.
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Dempsey-Jones H, Kritikos A. Handedness modulates proprioceptive drift in the rubber hand illusion. Exp Brain Res 2018; 237:351-361. [PMID: 30411222 PMCID: PMC6373180 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-018-5391-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2017] [Accepted: 10/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Preference for use of either the left or right hand (‘handedness’) has been linked with modulations of perception and sensory processing—both of space and the body. Here we ask whether multisensory integration of bodily information also varies as a function of handedness. We created a spatial disparity between visual and somatosensory hand position information using the rubber hand illusion, and use the magnitude of illusory shifts in hand position (proprioceptive ‘drift’) as a tool to probe the weighted integration of multisensory information. First, we found drift was significantly reduced when the illusion was performed on the dominant vs. non-dominant hand. We suggest increased manual dexterity of the dominant hand causes greater representational stability and thus an increased resistance to bias by the illusion induction. Second, drift was generally greatest when the hand was in its habitual action space (i.e., near the shoulder of origin), compared to when it laterally displaced towards, or across the midline. This linear effect, however, was only significant for the dominant hand—in both left- and right-handed groups. Thus, our results reveal patterns of habitual hand action modulate drift both within a hand (drift varies with proximity to action space), and between hands (differences in drift between the dominant and non-dominant hands). In contrast, we were unable to find conclusive evidence to support, or contradict, an overall difference between left- and right-handers in susceptibility to RHI drift (i.e., total drift, collapsed across hand positions). In sum, our results provide evidence that patterns of daily activity—and the subsequent patterns of sensory input—shape multisensory integration across space.
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Marzoli D, Lucafò C, Rescigno C, Mussini E, Padulo C, Prete G, D'Anselmo A, Malatesta G, Tommasi L. Sex-specific effects of posture on the attribution of handedness to an imagined agent. Exp Brain Res 2017; 235:1163-1171. [PMID: 28175962 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-017-4886-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2016] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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In a series of previous studies, we found that when participants were required to imagine another person performing a manual action, they imagined a significantly higher proportion of actions performed with their dominant rather than non-dominant hand, which indicates that shared motor representations between the self and the other are involved also during the imagination of others' actions. Interestingly, the activation of lateralized body-specific motor representations (as indexed by the congruence between the participant's handedness and the imagined person's handedness) appeared to be affected by the visual perspective adopted and participants' handedness. Given that past literature indicates that incongruent or unnatural postures interfere with motor imagery, we tested 480 right-handed participants to investigate whether subjects holding their right hand behind their back would have imagined right-handed actions less frequently than those holding their left hand behind their back. Moreover, we examined the effects of participant's sex, action category (simple or complex) and hand shape (open or fist). Contrary to our prediction, female participants holding their right hand behind their back imagined right-handed actions more frequently than those holding their left hand behind their back, whereas no significant effect was observed in male participants. We propose that the muscle contraction needed to keep a hand behind the back could activate the motor representations of that hand so as to increase the likelihood of imagining an action performed with the corresponding hand. Moreover, the sex difference observed is consistent with the greater use of embodied strategies by females than by males.
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- Daniele Marzoli
- Department of Psychological Sciences, Health and Territory, University of Chieti, Via dei Vestini 29, 66013, Chieti, Italy.
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- Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Health and Territory, University of Chieti, Via dei Vestini 29, 66013, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Health and Territory, University of Chieti, Via dei Vestini 29, 66013, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Health and Territory, University of Chieti, Via dei Vestini 29, 66013, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Health and Territory, University of Chieti, Via dei Vestini 29, 66013, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, Health and Territory, University of Chieti, Via dei Vestini 29, 66013, Chieti, Italy
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Hoover AEN, Harris LR. Inducing ownership over an 'other' perspective with a visuo-tactile manipulation. Exp Brain Res 2016; 234:3633-3639. [PMID: 27554087 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-016-4760-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Seeing our body from a 'self' perspective while performing a movement improves our ability to detect asynchrony between the visual and proprioceptive information concerning that movement: a signature of enhanced body ownership referred to as the 'self-advantage'. We consequently experience no self-advantage when seeing our body from an 'other' perspective. Here we ask whether introducing visuo-tactile stimulation (VTS), similar to that used in the rubber hand illusion to invoke ownership over a dummy hand, would produce a self-advantage when viewing the body from a typically 'other' perspective. Prior to the experiment, participants watched a live video of their own back using a camera mounted behind them while their back was tapped with a rod for 2 min. The video was either synchronous (sVTS) or asynchronous (aVTS) with the tapping. Participants then raised their hands and made a stereotyped finger movement that they watched from the same camera either in the original, natural perspective or upside down. Participants indicated which of two periods (one with minimum delay and one with an added delay of 33-264 ms) appeared delayed. Sensitivity was calculated using psychometric functions. The sVTS group showed a self-advantage of about 45 ms in the natural visual condition compared to the upside down condition, whereas the aVTS group showed no difference between the two conditions. Synchronous visuo-tactile experience increased the feeling of ownership over a typically 'other' perspective in a quantifiable way indicating the multisensory and malleable nature of body representation.
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- Adria E N Hoover
- Department Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
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- Department Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada.
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