Viewing touch improves tactile sensory threshold

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 367-370

  Schaefer, Michael ^a,b   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^b   Rotte, Michael ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross modal; Multisensory; Perception; Somatosensory cortex; Touch; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 15944415130     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200503150-00012     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Kennett S, Taylor-Clarke M, Haggard P. Noninformative vision improves the spatial resolution of touch in humans. Curr Biol 2001; 11:1188-1191.
2. Press C, Taylor-Clarke M, Kennett S, Haggard P. Visual enhancement of touch in spatial body representation. Exp Brain Res 2004; 154:238-245.
3. Tipper SP, Lloyd D, Shorland B, Dancer C, Howard LA, McGlone F, Vision influences tactile perception without proprioceptive orienting. Neuroreport 1998; 9:1741-1744.
4. Tipper SP, Phillips N, Dancer C, Lloyd D, Howard LA, McGlone F. Vision influences tactile perception at body sites that cannot be viewed directly. Exp Brain Res 2001; 139:160-167.
5. Taylor-Clarke M, Kennett S, Haggard P. Vision modulates somatosensory cortical processing. Curr Biol 2002; 12:233-236.
6. Taylor-Clarke M, Kennett S, Haggard P. Persistence of visual-tactile enhancement in humans. Neurosci Lett 2004; 354:22-25.
7. Iriki A, Tanaka M, Iwamura Y. Coding of modified body schemata during tool use by macaque postcentral neurones. Neuroreport 1996; 7:2325-2330.
8. Braun C, Heinz U, Schweizer R, Wiech K, Birbaumer N, Topka H. Dynamic organization of the somatosensory cortex induced by motor activity. Brain 2001; 124:2259-2267.
9. Ro T, Wallace R, Hagedorn J, Farne A, Pienkos E. Visual enhancing of tactile perception in the posterior parietal cortex. J Cogn Neurosci 2004; 16:24-30.
10. Rock I, Victor J. Vision and touch: an experimentally created conflict between the two senses. Science 1964; 143:594-596.
11. Craig JC, Johnson KO. The two-point threshold: not a measure of tactile spatial resolution. Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2000; 9:29-32.
12. Oldfield RC. The assessment and analysis of handedness: the Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 1971; 9:97-113.
13. Stratton GM. Vision without inversion of the retinal image. Psychol Rev 1897; 4:341-360 and 463-481.
14. Spence C. Multisensory attention and tactile information-processing. Behav Brain Res 2002; 135:57-64.
15. Zhou YD, Fuster JM. Neuronal activity of somatosensory cortex in a cross-modal (visuo-haptic) memory task. Exp Brain Res 1997; 116:551-555.
16. Zhou YD, Fuster JM, Visuotactile cross-modal associations in cortical somatosensory cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2000; 97:9777-9782.
17. Wheeler ME, Petersen SE, Buckner RI. Memory's echo: vivid remembering reactivates sensory-specific cortex. Proc Natl Acad Aci USA 2000; 97:11125-11129.
18. di Pellegrino G, Ladavas E, Farne A. Seeing where your hands are. Nature 1997; 388:730.
19. Newport R, Hindle JV, Jackson SR. Links between vision and somatosensation. Vision can improve the felt position of the unseen hand. Curr Biol 2001; 11:975-980.
20. Pavani F, Spence C, Driver J. Visual capture of touch: out-of-the-body experiences with rubber gloves. Psychol Sci 2000; 11:353-359.
21. Keysers C, Wicker B, Gazzola V, Anton J-L, Fogassi L, Gallese V. A touching sight: SII/PV activation during the observation of touch. Neuron 2004; 42:335-346.
22. Morrisson I, Lloyd D, di Pellegrino G, Roberts N. Vicarious responses to pain in anterior cingulate cortex: is empathy a multisensory issue? Cogn Aff Behav Neurosci 2004; 4:270-278.
23. Wicker B, Keysers C, Plaily J, Royet J-P, Gallese V, Rizzolatti G. Both of us disgusted in my insula: the common neural basis of seeing and feeling disgust. Neuron 2003; 40:655-664.
24. Rorden C, Heutink J, Greenfield E, Robertson IH. When a rubber hand 'feels' what the real hand cannot. Neuroreport 1999; 10:135-138.
25. Sathian K, Greenspan AI, Wolf SL. Doing it with mirrors: a case study of a novel approach to neurorehabilitation. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2000; 14:73-76.