ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2017
Auditory adaptation improves tactile frequency perception.
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- Paving the way for social touch at a distance: Sonifying tactile interactions and their underlying emotions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Enhanced neural phase locking through audio-tactile stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Beyond sense-specific processing: decoding texture in the brain from touch and sonified movement.iScience · 2023Article
- Cross-Modal Interactions of the Tactile System.Current directions in psychological science · 2022Article
- Rhythm perception is shared between audio and haptics.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Integration of somatosensory and motor-related information in the auditory system.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
- Auditory clicks elicit equivalent temporal frequency perception to tactile pulses: A cross-modal psychophysical study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Deficits in Sense of Body Ownership, Sensory Processing, and Temporal Perception in Schizophrenia Patients With/Without Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Multisensory temporal processing in early deaf.Neuropsychologia · 2021Article
- Auditory roughness elicits defense reactions.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Auditory and tactile frequency representations are co-embedded in modality-defined cortical sensory systems.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- Feeling the Beat (and Seeing It, Too): Vibrotactile, Visual, and Bimodal Rate Discrimination.Multisensory research · 2020Article
- Spectral hallmark of auditory-tactile interactions in the mouse somatosensory cortex.Communications biology · 2020Article
- Increased Right Posterior STS Recruitment Without Enhanced Directional-Tuning During Tactile Motion Processing in Early Deaf Individuals.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Recalibration of auditory perception of speech due to orofacial somatosensory inputs during speech motor adaptation.Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Article
- Multisensory perceptual interactions between higher-order temporal frequency signals.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2019Article
- Reciprocal Interactions Between Audition and Touch in Flutter Frequency Perception.Multisensory research · 2019Article
- Auditory Frequency Representations in Human Somatosensory Cortex.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2018Article
- Selective Attention Gates the Interactive Crossmodal Coupling between Perceptual Systems.Current biology : CB · 2018Article
- An Adaptation-Induced Repulsion Illusion in Tactile Spatial Perception.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2017Article
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Our ability to process temporal frequency information by touch underlies our capacity to perceive and discriminate surface textures. Auditory signals, which also provide extensive temporal frequency information, can systematically alter the perception of vibrations on the hand. How auditory signals shape tactile processing is unclear; perceptual interactions between contemporaneous sounds and vibrations are consistent with multiple neural mechanisms. Here we used a crossmodal adaptation paradigm, which separated auditory and tactile stimulation in time, to test the hypothesis that tactile frequency perception depends on neural circuits that also process auditory frequency. We reasoned that auditory adaptation effects would transfer to touch only if signals from both senses converge on common representations. We found that auditory adaptation can improve tactile frequency discrimination thresholds. This occurred only when adaptor and test frequencies overlapped. In contrast, auditory adaptation did not influence tactile intensity judgments. Thus auditory adaptation enhances touch in a frequency- and feature-specific manner. A simple network model in which tactile frequency information is decoded from sensory neurons that are susceptible to auditory adaptation recapitulates these behavioral results. Our results imply that the neural circuits supporting tactile frequency perception also process auditory signals. This finding is consistent with the notion of supramodal operators performing canonical operations, like temporal frequency processing, regardless of input modality.
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