The right hand knows what the left hand is feeling

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 366-373

  Braun, Christoph ^a   Hess, Heike ^a   Burkhardt, Michaela ^a   Wühle, Anja ^a   Preissl, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hemispheres; Perception; Priming; Psychophysics; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; THUMB;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 17744375162     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2187-4     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Braun C, Schweizer R, Elbert T, Birbaumer N, Taub E (2000) Differential Activation in Somatosensory Cortex for Different Discrimination Tasks. J Neurosci 20:446-450
2. Braun C, Haug M, Wiech K, Birbaumer N, Elbert T, Roberts LE (2002) Functional organization of primary somatosensory cortex depends on the focus of attention. NeuroImage 17:1451-1458
3. Chen LM, Friedman RP, Ramsden BM, LaMotte RH, Roe AW (2001) Fine-scale organization of SI (area 3b) in the squirrel monkey revealed with intrinsic optical imaging. J Neurophysiol 86:3011-3029
4. Godde B, Hilger T, von Seelen W, Berkenfeld T, Dinse HR (1995) Optical imaging of rat somatosensory cortex reveals representational overlap as a topographic principle. Neuroreport 29:24-28
5. Hämälainen H, Kekoni J, Sams M, Reinikainen K, Näätanen R (1990) Human somatosensory evoked potentials to mechanical pulses and vibration: contributions of SI and SII somatosensory cortices to P50 and P100 components. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 75:13-21
6. Hansson T, Brismar T (1999) Tactile stimulation of the hand causes bilateral cortical activation: a functional magnetic resonance study in humans. Neurosci Lett 271:29-32
7. Hari R, Reinikainen K, Kaukoranta E, Hämäläinen M, Ilmoniemi R, Penttinen A, Salminen J, Teszner D (1984) Somatosensory evoked cerebral magnetic fields from SI and SII in man. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 57:254-263
8. Harris JA, Harris IM, Diamond ME (2001) The topography of tactile learning in humans. J Neurosci 21:1056-1061
9. Harris JA, Thein T, Clifford CW (2004) Dissociating detection from localization of tactile stimuli. J Neurosci 24:3683-3693
10. Hoshiyama M, Kakigi R, Koyama S, Watanabe S, Shimojo M (1997) Activity in posterior parietal cortex following somatosensory stimulation in man: magnetoencephalographic study using spatio-temporal source analysis. Brain Topogr 10:23-30
11. Iwamura Y, Tanaka M, Sakamoto M, Hikosaka O (1983) Converging patterns of finger representation and complex response properties of neurons in area 1 of the first somatosensory cortex of the conscious monkey. Exp Brain Res 51:327-337
12. Iwamura Y, Iriki A, Tanaka M (1994) Bilateral hand representation in the postcentral somatosensory cortex. Nature 369:554-556
13. Iwamura Y, Tanaka M, Iriki A, Taoka M, Taoka M (2002) Processing of tactile and kinesthetic signals from bilateral sides of the body in the postcentral gyrus of awake monkeys. Behav Brain Research 135:185-190
14. Jones EG, Coulter JD, Hendry SH (1978) Intracortical connectivity of architectonic fields in the somatic sensory, motor and parietal cortex of monkeys. J Comp Neurol 181:291-347
15. Jones EG, Schwark HD, Callahan PA (1986) Extent of ipsilateral representations in the ventral posterior medial nucleus of the monkey thalamus. Exp Brain Res 63:310-320
16. Killackey HP, Gould HJI, Cusick CG, Pons TP, Kaas JH (1983) The relation of corpus callosum connections to architectonic fields and body surface maps in sensorimotor cortex of New and Old World monkeys. J Comp Neurol 219:384-419
17. Moore CI, Nelson SB (1998) Spatio-temporal subthreshold receptive fields in the vibrissa representation of rat primary somatosensory cortex. J Neurophysiol 80:2882-2892
18. Penfield W, Boldrey E (1937) Somatic motor and sensory representation in the cerebral cortex of man as studied by electrical stimulation. Brain 60:389-443
19. Penfield W, Rasmussen AT (1950) The cerebral cortex of man. Macmillan, New York
20. Reed CL, Shoham S, Halgren E (2004) Neural substrates of tactile object recognition: an fMRI study. Hum Brain Map 21:236-246
21. Ruben J, Schwiemann J, Deuchert M, Meyer R, Krause T, Curio G, Villringer K, Kurth R, Villringer A (2001) Somatotopic organization of human secondary somatosensory cortex. Cereb Cortex 11:463-473
22. Schnitzler A, Salmelin R, Salenius S, Jousmaki V, Hari R (1995) Tactile information from the human hand reaches the ipsilateral primary somatosensory cortex. Neurosci Lett 200:25-28
23. Schweizer R, Maier M, Braun C, Birbaumer N (2000) Distribution of mislocalization at the fingers of the human hand. Somatosens Mot Res 17:309-316
24. Schweizer R, Braun C, Fromm C, Wilms A, Birbaumer N (2001) The distribution of mislocalization across fingers demonstrates training-induced neuroplastic changes in somatosensory cortex. Exp Brain Res 139:435-442
25. Shoham D, Grinvald A (2001) The cortical representation of the hand in macaque and human area S-I: high resolution optical imaging. J Neurosci 21:6820-6835
26. Shuler M, Krupa D, Nicolelis M (2001) Bilateral integration of whisker information in the primary somatosensory cortex of rats. J Neurosci 21:5251-5261
27. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ (1981) Biomentry. Freeman, New York
28. Sur M, Merzenich MM, Kaas JH (1980) Magnification, receptive field area, and hypercolumn size in areas 3b and 1 of somatosensory cortex in owl monkeys. J Neurophysiol 44:295-311
29. Sur M, Garraghty PE, Bruce CJ (1985) Somatosensory cortex in macaque monkeys: laminar differences in receptive field size in area 3b and 1. Brain Res 342:391-395
30. Weinstein S (1968) Intensive and extensive aspects of tactile sensitivity as a function of body part, sex and laterality. In: Kenshalo DR Sr (ed) The skin senses. Charles L Thomas, Springfield, pp 195-222
31. Weinstein S, Sersen EA (1961) Tactual sensitivity as a function of handedness and laterality. J Comp Physiol Psychol 54:665-669
32. Weller RE, Sur M, Kaas JH (1987) Callosal and ipsilateral cortical connections of the body surface representations in SI and SII of tree shrews. Somatosens Res 5:107-133