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ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2020

Attentional Modulation of Vision Versus Proprioception During Action.

Jakub Limanowski, Karl Friston

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Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35 citing papers in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Jakub LimanowskiWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.
Karl FristonWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK.

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 088130/Z/09/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To control our actions efficiently, our brain represents our body based on a combination of visual and proprioceptive cues, weighted according to how (un)reliable-how precise-each respective modality is in a given context. However, perceptual experiments in other modalities suggest that the weights assigned to sensory cues are also modulated "top-down" by attention. Here, we asked whether during action, attention can likewise modulate the weights (i.e., precision) assigned to visual versus proprioceptive information about body position. Participants controlled a virtual hand (VH) via a data glove, matching either the VH or their (unseen) real hand (RH) movements to a target, and thus adopting a ``visual'' or ``proprioceptive'' attentional set, under varying levels of visuo-proprioceptive congruence and visibility. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) revealed increased activation of the multisensory superior parietal lobe (SPL) during the VH task and increased activation of the secondary somatosensory cortex (S2) during the RH task. Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) showed that these activity changes were the result of selective, diametrical gain modulations in the primary visual cortex (V1) and the S2. These results suggest that endogenous attention can balance the gain of visual versus proprioceptive brain areas, thus contextualizing their influence on multisensory areas representing the body for action.

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AdultAttentionFemaleHandHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleProprioceptionPsychomotor PerformanceVision, OcularVisual PerceptionYoung Adultactionattentiondynamic causal modelingsensorimotor integration

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PMID31670769
PMCPMC7132949

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