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ArticleHuman brain mapping2024

Somatosensory omissions reveal action-related predictive processing.

Tjerk T Dercksen, Andreas Widmann, Tömme Noesselt, Nicole Wetzel

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  1. Neural Evidence for Action-Related Somatosensory Predictions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  4. The Somatosensory Mismatch Negativity.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025
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Tjerk T DercksenResearch Group Neurocognitive Development, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3513-3738
Andreas WidmannResearch Group Neurocognitive Development, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3664-8581
Tömme NoesseltCenter for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9611-9713
Nicole WetzelResearch Group Neurocognitive Development, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2352-5366

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Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences ZS/2016/04/78120Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG-SFB 1436-TPB06Leibniz-Gemeinschaft P58/2017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The intricate relation between action and somatosensory perception has been studied extensively in the past decades. Generally, a forward model is thought to predict the somatosensory consequences of an action. These models propose that when an action is reliably coupled to a tactile stimulus, unexpected absence of the stimulus should elicit prediction error. Although such omission responses have been demonstrated in the auditory modality, it remains unknown whether this mechanism generalizes across modalities. This study therefore aimed to record action-induced somatosensory omission responses using EEG in humans. Self-paced button presses were coupled to somatosensory stimuli in 88% of trials, allowing a prediction, or in 50% of trials, not allowing a prediction. In the 88% condition, stimulus omission resulted in a neural response consisting of multiple components, as revealed by temporal principal component analysis. The oN1 response suggests similar sensory sources as stimulus-evoked activity, but an origin outside primary cortex. Subsequent oN2 and oP3 responses, as previously observed in the auditory domain, likely reflect modality-unspecific higher order processes. Together, findings straightforwardly demonstrate somatosensory predictions during action and provide evidence for a partially amodal mechanism of prediction error generation.

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Cerebral CortexElectroencephalographyHumansSomatosensory CortexEEGefference copymotorpredictive coding

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