ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2016
Neuromagnetic correlates of adaptive plasticity across the hand-face border in human primary somatosensory cortex.
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- Tactile learning transfer from the hand to the face but not to the forearm implies a special hand-face relationship.Scientific reports · 2018Trial
- On the impact of tactile processing on motor cortex: how touch shapes motor behaviour.Brain structure & function · 2026Review
- Transfer of Tactile Learning to Untrained Body Parts: Emerging Cortical Mechanisms.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2025Review
- Plasticity of face-hand sensorimotor circuits after a traumatic brachial plexus injury.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Evidence- and data-driven classification of low back pain via artificial intelligence: Protocol of the PREDICT-LBP study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Spatial probability maps of the segments of the postcentral sulcus in the human brain.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Article
- Relation between palm and finger cortical representations in primary somatosensory cortex: A 7T fMRI study.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- Somatosensory cortical representation of the body size.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- The effect of LTP- and LTD-like visual stimulation on modulation of human orientation discrimination.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- The recalibration of tactile perception during tool use is body-part specific.Experimental brain research · 2017Article
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Abstract
It is well established that permanent or transient reduction of somatosensory inputs, following hand deafferentation or anesthesia, induces plastic changes across the hand-face border, supposedly responsible for some altered perceptual phenomena such as tactile sensations being referred from the face to the phantom hand. It is also known that transient increase of hand somatosensory inputs, via repetitive somatosensory stimulation (RSS) at a fingertip, induces local somatosensory discriminative improvement accompanied by cortical representational changes in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI). We recently demonstrated that RSS at the tip of the right index finger induces similar training-independent perceptual learning across the hand-face border, improving somatosensory perception at the lips (Muret D, Dinse HR, Macchione S, Urquizar C, Farnè A, Reilly KT.Curr Biol24: R736-R737, 2014). Whether neural plastic changes across the hand-face border accompany such remote and adaptive perceptual plasticity remains unknown. Here we used magnetoencephalography to investigate the electrophysiological correlates underlying RSS-induced behavioral changes across the hand-face border. The results highlight significant changes in dipole location after RSS both for the stimulated finger and for the lips. These findings reveal plastic changes that cross the hand-face border after an increase, instead of a decrease, in somatosensory inputs.
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