ArticlePloS one2014
Vestibular-somatosensory interactions: effects of passive whole-body rotation on somatosensory detection.
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- Brain Gray Matter Volume Is Modulated by Visual Input and Overall Learning Success but Not by Time Spent on Learning a Complex Balancing Task.Journal of clinical medicine · 2018Article
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- Perception of threshold-level whole-body motion during mechanical mastoid vibration.Journal of vestibular research : equilibrium & orientation · 2018Article
- Multisensory effects on somatosensation: a trimodal visuo-vestibular-tactile interaction.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Oscillatory neural responses evoked by natural vestibular stimuli in humans.Journal of neurophysiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Vestibular signals are strongly integrated with information from several other sensory modalities. For example, vestibular stimulation was reported to improve tactile detection. However, this improvement could reflect either a multimodal interaction or an indirect interaction driven by vestibular effects on spatial attention and orienting. Here we investigate whether natural vestibular activation induced by passive whole-body rotation influences tactile detection. In particular, we assessed the ability to detect faint tactile stimuli to the fingertips of the left and right hand during spatially congruent or incongruent rotations. We found that passive whole-body rotations significantly enhanced sensitivity to faint shocks, without affecting response bias. Critically, this enhancement of somatosensory sensitivity did not depend on the spatial congruency between the direction of rotation and the hand stimulated. Thus, our results support a multimodal interaction, likely in brain areas receiving both vestibular and somatosensory signals.
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