Co-activation of the secondary somatosensory and auditory cortices facilitates frequency discrimination of vibrotactile stimuli

Neuroscience

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 461-472

  Iguchi, Yoshinobu ^a   Hoshi, Yoko ^a   Nemoto, Masahito ^a   Taira, Masato ^b   Hashimoto, Isao ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

acoustic imagery; auditory feedback; discrimination task; somatosensory evoked magnetic fields; tactile information processing; vibrotactile stimuli

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MIDDLE LATENCY COMPONENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PARIETAL LOBE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED MAGNETIC FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRATION SENSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 34548463028     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Burton H., Abend N.S., MacLeod A.-M.K., Sinclair R.J., Snyder A.Z., and Raichle M.E. Tactile attention tasks enhanced activation in somatosensory regions of parietal cortex: a positron emission tomography study. Cereb Cortex 9 (1999) 662-674
2. Caetano G., and Jousmäki V. Evidence of vibrotactile input to human auditory cortex. Neuroimage 29 (2006) 15-28
3. Dehner L.R., Keniston L.P., Clemo R., and Meredith M.A. Cross-modal circuitry between auditory and somatosensory areas of the cat anterior ectosylvian sulcal cortex: a "new" inhibitory form of multisensory convergence. Cereb Cortex 14 (2004) 387-403
4. Desmedt J.E., and Tomberg C. The search for "neutral" conditions for recording control event-related potentials in order to assess cognitive components to both irrelevant and relevant stimuli: evidence for short-latency cognitive somatosensory effects. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol Suppl 42 (1991) 210-221
5. Ferrington D.G., and Rowe M. Differential contributions to coding of cutaneous vibratory information by cortical somatosensory areas I and II. J Neurophysiol 43 (1980) 310-331
6. Foxe J.J., Wylie G.R., Martinez A., Schroeder C.E., Javitt D.C., Guilfoyle D., Ritter W., and Murray M.M. Auditory-somatosensory multisensory processing in auditory association cortex: an fMRI study. J Neurophysiol 88 (2002) 540-543
7. Fu K.M., Johnston T.A., Shah A.S., Arnold L., Smiley J., Hackett T.A., Garraghty P.E., and Schroeder C.E. Auditory cortical neurons respond to somatosensory stimulation. J Neurosci 23 (2003) 7510-7515
8. Gobbelé R., Schürmann M., Forss N., Juottonen K., Buchner H., and Hari R. Activation of the human posterior parietal and temporoparietal cortices during audiotactile interaction. Neuroimage 20 (2003) 503-511
9. Guest S., Catmur C., Lloyd D., and Spence C. Audiotactile interactions in roughness interactions. Neuroimage 30 (2006) 917-926
10. Hämäläinen H., Kekoni J., Sams M., Reinikainen K., and Näätänen R. Human somatosensory evoked potentials to mechanical pulses and vibration: contributions of SI and SII somatosensory cortices to P50 and P100 components. Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 75 (1990) 13-21
11. Hämäläinen H., Sams M., Pertovaara A., Carlson S., Reinikainen K., and Näätänen R. Different functional roles of SI and SII somatosensory cortices as reflected by evoked potentials and multiple-unit responses to mechanical stimulation in awake monkey. Neurosci Res Commun 2 (1988) 143-150
12. Hari R., Hämäläinen H., Hämäläinen M., Kekoni J., Sams M., and Tiihonen J. Separate finger representations at the human second somatosensory cortex. Neuroscience 37 (1990) 245-249
13. Hashimoto I., Mashiko T., Kimura T., and Imada T. Human somatosensory evoked magnetic fields to vibratory stimulation of the index finger: is there frequency organization in SI?. Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol 109 (1998) 454-461
14. Hashimoto I., Saito Y., Iguchi Y., Kimura T., Fukushima T., Terasaki O., and Sakuma K. Frequency representation in the human hand somatosensory cortex: a reappraisal. NeuroReport 10 (1999) 959-963
15. Hoechstetter K., Rupp A., Meinck H.M., Weckesser D., Bornfleth H., Stippich C., Berg P., and Scherg M. Magnetic source imaging of tactile input shows task-independent attention effects in SII. NeuroReport 11 (2000) 2461-2465
16. Hyvärinen J., Sakata H., Talbot W.H., and Mountcastle V.B. Neuronal coding by cortical cells of the frequency of oscillating peripheral stimuli. Science 162 (1968) 1130-1132
17. Iguchi Y., Hoshi Y., and Hashimoto I. Selective spatial attention induces short-term plasticity in human somatosensory cortex. NeuroReport 12 (2001) 3133-3136
18. Iguchi Y., Hoshi Y., Tanosaki M., Taira M., and Hashimoto I. Selective attention regulates spatial and intensity information processing in the human primary somatosensory cortex. NeuroReport 13 (2002) 2335-2339
19. Iguchi Y., Hoshi Y., Tanosaki M., Taira M., and Hashimoto I. Attention induces reciprocal activity in the human somatosensory cortex enhancing relevant- and suppressing irrelevant inputs from fingers. Clin Neurophysiol 116 (2005) 1077-1087
20. Inoue K., Yamashita T., Harada T., and Nakamura S. Role of human SII cortices in sensorimotor integration. Clin Neurophysiol 113 (2002) 1573-1578
21. Johansen-Berg H., Christensen V., Woolrich M., and Matthews P.M. Attention to touch modulates activity in both primary and secondary somatosensory areas. NeuroReport 11 (2000) 1237-1241
22. Jousmäki V., and Hari R. Parchment-skin illusion: sound-biased touch. Curr Biol 8 (1998) R190
23. Levänen S., and Hamdorf D. Feeling vibrations: enhanced tactile sensitivity in congenitally deaf humans. Neurosci Lett 301 (2001) 75-77
24. Levänen S., Jousmäki V., and Hari R. Vibration-induced auditory-cortex activation in a congentially deaf adult. Curr Biol 8 (1998) 869-872
25. Lütkenhöner B., Lammertmann C., Simôes C., and Hari R. Magnetoencephalographic correlates of audiotactile interaction. Neuroimage 15 (2002) 509-522
26. Matsuhashi M., Ikeda A., Ohara S., Matsumoto R., Yamamoto J., Takayama M., Satow T., Begum T., Usui K., Nagamine T., Mikuni N., Takahashi J., Miyamoto S., and Fukuyama H. Multisensory convergence at human temporo-parietal junction-epicortical recording of evoked responses. Clin Neurophysiol 115 (2004) 1145-1160
27. Mauguiere F., Merlet I., Forss N., Vanni S., Jousmäki V., Adeleine P., and Hari R. Activation of a distributed somatosensory cortical network in the human brain: a dipole modeling study of magnetic fields evoked by median nerve stimulation. Part II: Effects of stimulus rate, attention and stimulus detection. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 104 (1997) 290-295
28. Meredith M.A., Keniston L.R., Dehner L.A., and Clemo H.R. Cross-modal projection from somatosensory area SIV to the auditory field of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus (FAES) in cat: further evidence for subthreshold forms of multisensory processing. Ext Brain Res 172 (2006) 472-484
29. Mountcastle V.B., Talbot W.H., Sakata H., and Hyvärinen J. Cortical neuronal mechanisms in flutter-vibration studied in unanesthetized monkeys. Neuronal periodicity and frequency discrimination. J Neurophysiol 32 (1969) 452-484
30. Poranen A., and Hyvärinen J. Effects of attention on multiunit responses to vibration in the somatosensory regions of the monkey's brain. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 53 (1982) 525-537
31. Schaefer M., Heinze H.J., and Rotte M. Task-relevant modulation of primary somatosensory cortex suggests a prefrontal-cortical sensory gating system. Neuroimage 27 (2005) 130-135
32. Schroeder C.E., and Foxe J.J. The timing and laminar profile of converging inputs to multisensory areas of the macaque neocortex. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 14 (2002) 187-198
33. Schroeder C.E., Lindsley R.W., Specht C., Marcovici A., Smiley J.F., and Javitt D.C. Somatosensory input to auditory association cortex in the macaque monkey. J Neurophysiol 85 (2001) 1322-1327
34. Schroeder C.E., Smiley J., Fu K.G., McGinnis T., O'Connell M.N., and Hackett T.A. Anatomical mechanisms and functional implication of multisensory convergence in early cortical processing. Int J Psychophysiol 50 (2003) 5-17
35. Schürmann M., Caetano G., Jousmäki V., and Hari R. Hands help hearing: facilitatory audiotactile interaction at low sound-intensity levels. J Acoust Soc Am 115 (2004) 830-832
36. Schürmann M., Caetano G., Hlushchuk Y., Jousmäki V., and Hari R. Touch activates human auditory cortex. Neuroimage 30 (2006) 1325-1331
37. Staines W.R., Graham S.J., Black S.E., and McIlroy W.E. Task-relevant modulation of contralateral and ipsilateral primary somatosensory cortex and the role of a prefrontal-cortical sensory gating system. Neuroimage 15 (2002) 190-199