Fingers Crossed! An Investigation of Somatotopic Representations Using Spatial Directional Judgements
Identifieur interne : 002225 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 002224; suivant : 002226Fingers Crossed! An Investigation of Somatotopic Representations Using Spatial Directional Judgements
Auteurs : Alyanne M. De Haan ; Helen A. Anema ; H. Chris DijkermanSource :
- PLoS ONE [ 1932-6203 ] ; 2012.
Abstract
Processing of tactile stimuli requires both localising the stimuli on the body surface and combining this information with a representation of the current posture. When tactile stimuli are applied to crossed hands, the system first assumes a prototypical (e.g. uncrossed) positioning of the limbs. Remapping to include the crossed posture occurs within about 300 ms. Since fingers have been suggested to be represented in a mainly somatotopic reference frame we were interested in how the processing of tactile stimuli applied to the fingers would be affected by an unusual posture of the fingers. We asked participants to report the direction of movement of two tactile stimuli, applied successively to the crossed or uncrossed index and middle fingers of one hand at different inter-stimulus intervals (15 to 700 ms). Participants almost consistently reported perceiving the stimulus direction as opposite to what it was in the fingers crossed condition, even with SOAs of 700 ms, suggesting that on average they did not incorporate the unusual relative finger positions. Therefore our results are in agreement with the idea that, by default, the processing of tactile stimuli assumes a prototypical positioning of body parts. However, in contrast to what is generally found with tactile perception with crossed hands, performance did not improve with SOAs as long as 700 ms. This suggests that the localization of stimuli in a somatotopic reference and the integration of this representation with postural information are two separate processes that apply differently to the hands and fingers.
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045408
PubMed: 23028989
PubMed Central: 3454417
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