Evidence map›Paper›PMID 34648327›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2021

Modulation of tactile feedback for the execution of dexterous movement.

James M Conner, Andrew Bohannon, Masakazu Igarashi, James Taniguchi, Nicholas Baltar, Eiman Azim

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Robust PHP in Adult Hippocampus: Essential Assay Optimizations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. Medullary and C3-C4 propriospinal pathways underlying mammalian forelimb movement control.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Expectation Of Tactile Signals In Human Motor Cortex.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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  12. The Excessive Tonic Inhibition of the Peri-infarct Cortex Depresses Low Gamma Rhythm Power During Poststroke Recovery.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  13. Refined movement analysis in the staircase test reveals differential motor deficits in mouse models of stroke.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2024
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  17. Interchangeable Role of Motor Cortex and Reafference for the Stable Execution of an Orofacial Action.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

James M ConnerMolecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0731-8746
Andrew Bohannon *Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4497-9073
Masakazu Igarashi *Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5723-3612
James TaniguchiMolecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1571-3869
Nicholas BaltarMolecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Eiman AzimMolecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1015-1772

Funding

Spinal Circuits for the Control of Dextrous MovementU19NS112959 · NINDS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI PFAFF, SAMUEL L. · 2019 to 2023
$14.3M
Neural control of skilled movements: an ethological dissection of genetically tractable mammalian motor circuitsDP2NS105555 · NINDS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI AZIM, EIMAN · 2017 to 2022
$3.7M
Defining the anatomical, molecular and functional logic of internal copy circuits involved in dexterous forelimb behaviorsR01NS111479 · NINDS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI AZIM, EIMAN · 2019 to 2023
$2.9M
Control of Skilled Forelimb Movements by Cerebellar Feedback CircuitsR00NS088193 · NINDS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI AZIM, EIMAN · 2016 to 2018
$747k
NINDS NIH HHS DP2 NS105555NINDS NIH HHS R00 NS088193NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS111479NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS112959Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although dexterity relies on the constant transmission of sensory information, unchecked feedback can be disruptive. Yet how somatosensory feedback from the hands is regulated and whether this modulation influences movement remain unclear. We found that mouse tactile afferents recruit neurons in the brainstem cuneate nucleus, whose activity is modulated by distinct classes of local inhibitory neurons. Manipulation of these inhibitory circuits suppresses or enhances the transmission of tactile information, which affects manual behaviors. Top-down cortical pathways innervate cuneate in a complementary pattern, with somatosensory cortical neurons targeting the core tactile region of cuneate and a large rostral cortical population driving feed-forward inhibition of tactile transmission through an inhibitory shell. These findings identify a circuit basis for tactile feedback modulation that enables the effective execution of dexterous movement.

Indexed as

Feedback, SensoryAnimalsBrain StemFemaleMaleMiceMice, Mutant StrainsMotor SkillsMovementNeural InhibitionOptogeneticsSomatosensory CortexTouchVesicular Inhibitory Amino Acid Transport ProteinsVesicular Inhibitory Amino Acid Transport ProteinsViaat protein, mouse

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PMID34648327
PMCPMC8568303

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