ArticleCerebral cortex communications2020
A Causal Role of Area hMST for Self-Motion Perception in Humans.
Article in Cerebral cortex communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Distinct temporal dynamics of judging scene-relative object motion and estimating heading from optic flow.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Multisensory coding of self-motion and its contribution to navigation.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Review
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- Neural correlates of visual and tactile path integration and their task related modulation.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Alterations in Corticocortical Vestibular Network Functional Connectivity Are Associated with Decreased Balance Ability in Elderly Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Cortical Motion Perception Emerges from Dimensionality Reduction with Evolved Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity Rules.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Cortical visual area CSv as a cingulate motor area: a sensorimotor interface for the control of locomotion.Brain structure & function · 2021Review
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Abstract
Previous studies in the macaque monkey have provided clear causal evidence for an involvement of the medial-superior-temporal area (MST) in the perception of self-motion. These studies also revealed an overrepresentation of contraversive heading. Human imaging studies have identified a functional equivalent (hMST) of macaque area MST. Yet, causal evidence of hMST in heading perception is lacking. We employed neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to test for such a causal relationship. We expected TMS over hMST to induce increased perceptual variance (i.e., impaired precision), while leaving mean heading perception (accuracy) unaffected. We presented 8 human participants with an optic flow stimulus simulating forward self-motion across a ground plane in one of 3 directions. Participants indicated perceived heading. In 57% of the trials, TMS pulses were applied, temporally centered on self-motion onset. TMS stimulation site was either right-hemisphere hMST, identified by a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) localizer, or a control-area, just outside the fMRI localizer activation. As predicted, TMS over area hMST, but not over the control-area, increased response variance of perceived heading as compared with noTMS stimulation trials. As hypothesized, this effect was strongest for contraversive self-motion. These data provide a first causal evidence for a critical role of hMST in visually guided navigation.
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