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ArticleNature communications2023

Peripersonal encoding of forelimb proprioception in the mouse somatosensory cortex.

Ignacio Alonso, Irina Scheer, Mélanie Palacio-Manzano, Noémie Frézel-Jacob, Antoine Philippides, Mario Prsa

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. An output-null signature of inertial load in motor cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ignacio Alonso *Department of Neuroscience and Movement Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0009-5496-6314
Irina Scheer *Department of Neuroscience and Movement Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Mélanie Palacio-ManzanoDepartment of Neuroscience and Movement Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Noémie Frézel-JacobDepartment of Neuroscience and Movement Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5812-6664
Antoine PhilippidesDepartment of Basic Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Mario PrsaDepartment of Neuroscience and Movement Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland. mario.prsa@unifr.ch.ORCID 0000-0001-5012-2506
University of Fribourg · CHUniversity of Geneva · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conscious perception of limb movements depends on proprioceptive neural responses in the somatosensory cortex. In contrast to tactile sensations, proprioceptive cortical coding is barely studied in the mammalian brain and practically non-existent in rodent research. To understand the cortical representation of this important sensory modality we developed a passive forelimb displacement paradigm in behaving mice and also trained them to perceptually discriminate where their limb is moved in space. We delineated the rodent proprioceptive cortex with wide-field calcium imaging and optogenetic silencing experiments during behavior. Our results reveal that proprioception is represented in both sensory and motor cortical areas. In addition, behavioral measurements and responses of layer 2/3 neurons imaged with two-photon microscopy reveal that passive limb movements are both perceived and encoded in the mouse cortex as a spatial direction vector that interfaces the limb with the body's peripersonal space.

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ProprioceptionSomatosensory CortexAnimalsForelimbMammalsMiceTouchUpper Extremity

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PMID37045825
PMCPMC10097678
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