ArticleeLife2016
Perceptually relevant remapping of human somatotopy in 24 hours.
Article in eLife, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Tactile stimulation designs adapted to clinical settings result in reliable fMRI-based somatosensory digit maps.BMC neuroscience · 2024Article
- Active perceptual learning involves motor exploration and adaptation of predictive sensory integration.iScience · 2024Article
- Exploring the transformative influence of neuroplasticity on stroke rehabilitation: a narrative review of current evidence.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Review
- Morphology, Connectivity, and Encoding Features of Tactile and Motor Representations of the Fingers in the Human Precentral and Postcentral Gyrus.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Cortical field maps across human sensory cortex.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2023Review
- A cutaneous mechanoneural interface for neuroprosthetic feedback.Nature biomedical engineering · 2022Article
- Reassessing associations between white matter and behaviour with multimodal microstructural imaging.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2021Article
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- Robotic hand augmentation drives changes in neural body representation.Science robotics · 2021Article
- The organizational principles of de-differentiated topographic maps in somatosensory cortex.eLife · 2021Article
- Differential neural plasticity of individual fingers revealed by fMRI neurofeedback.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Chronic musculoskeletal impairment is associated with alterations in brain regions responsible for the production and perception of movement.The Journal of physiology · 2021Article
- Human Somatosensory Processing and Artificial Somatosensation.Cyborg and bionic systems (Washington, D.C.) · 2021Review
- Fine-Grained Mapping of Cortical Somatotopies in Chronic Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Binding During Sequence Learning Does Not Alter Cortical Representations of Individual Actions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Experience-dependent reorganisation of functional maps in the cerebral cortex is well described in the primary sensory cortices. However, there is relatively little evidence for such cortical reorganisation over the short-term. Using human somatosensory cortex as a model, we investigated the effects of a 24 hr gluing manipulation in which the right index and right middle fingers (digits 2 and 3) were adjoined with surgical glue. Somatotopic representations, assessed with two 7 tesla fMRI protocols, revealed rapid off-target reorganisation in the non-manipulated fingers following gluing, with the representation of the ring finger (digit 4) shifted towards the little finger (digit 5) and away from the middle finger (digit 3). These shifts were also evident in two behavioural tasks conducted in an independent cohort, showing reduced sensitivity for discriminating the temporal order of stimuli to the ring and little fingers, and increased substitution errors across this pair on a speeded reaction time task.
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