Hand position-dependent modulation of errors in vibrotactile temporal order judgments: the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation to the human posterior parietal cortex
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Hand position-dependent modulation of errors in vibrotactile temporal order judgments : the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation to the human posterior parietal cortex. / Ritterband-Rosenbaum, Anina; Hermosillo, Robert; Kroliczak, Gregory; van Donkelaar, Paul.
In: Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 232, No. 6, 2014, p. 1689-1698.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Hand position-dependent modulation of errors in vibrotactile temporal order judgments
T2 - the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation to the human posterior parietal cortex
AU - Ritterband-Rosenbaum, Anina
AU - Hermosillo, Robert
AU - Kroliczak, Gregory
AU - van Donkelaar, Paul
N1 - CURIS 2014 NEXS 410
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The ability to decide which of the two stimuli is presented first can be probed using a temporal order judgment (TOJ) task. When the stimuli are delivered to the fingers, TOJ decisions can be confounded by the fact that the hands can be moved to different locations in space. How and where this confounded information is processed in the brain is poorly understood. In the present set of experiments, we addressed this knowledge gap by using singlepulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to disrupt processing in the right or left posterior parietal cortex (PPC) during a vibrotactile TOJ task with stimuli applied to the right and left index fingers. In the first experiment, participants held their hands in an uncrossed configuration, and we found that when the index finger contralateral to the site of TMS was stimulated first, there was a significantincrease in TOJ errors. This increase did not occur when stimuli were delivered to the ipsilateral finger first. In the second experiment, participants held their hands in a crossed configuration and the pattern of errors was reversed relative to the first experiment. In both the first two experiments, significant increases in TOJ error were present with TMS over either hemisphere, regardless of armconfiguration; however, they were larger overall following TMS over the right PPC. Control experiments using sham TMS indicated the systematic modulation in error was not due to nonspecific effects of the stimulation. Additionally,we showed that these TMS-induced changes in TOJ errors were not due to a reduced ability to detect the timing of the vibrotactile stimuli. Taken together, these results demonstrate that both the right and left PPC contribute to the processing underlying vibrotactile TOJs by integrating vibrotactile information and proprioceptive information related to arm position in space.
AB - The ability to decide which of the two stimuli is presented first can be probed using a temporal order judgment (TOJ) task. When the stimuli are delivered to the fingers, TOJ decisions can be confounded by the fact that the hands can be moved to different locations in space. How and where this confounded information is processed in the brain is poorly understood. In the present set of experiments, we addressed this knowledge gap by using singlepulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to disrupt processing in the right or left posterior parietal cortex (PPC) during a vibrotactile TOJ task with stimuli applied to the right and left index fingers. In the first experiment, participants held their hands in an uncrossed configuration, and we found that when the index finger contralateral to the site of TMS was stimulated first, there was a significantincrease in TOJ errors. This increase did not occur when stimuli were delivered to the ipsilateral finger first. In the second experiment, participants held their hands in a crossed configuration and the pattern of errors was reversed relative to the first experiment. In both the first two experiments, significant increases in TOJ error were present with TMS over either hemisphere, regardless of armconfiguration; however, they were larger overall following TMS over the right PPC. Control experiments using sham TMS indicated the systematic modulation in error was not due to nonspecific effects of the stimulation. Additionally,we showed that these TMS-induced changes in TOJ errors were not due to a reduced ability to detect the timing of the vibrotactile stimuli. Taken together, these results demonstrate that both the right and left PPC contribute to the processing underlying vibrotactile TOJs by integrating vibrotactile information and proprioceptive information related to arm position in space.
KW - Temporal order judgment
KW - Transcranial magnetic stimulation
KW - Posterior parietal cortex
KW - Vibrotactile
KW - Spatial
U2 - 10.1007/s00221-014-3861-9
DO - 10.1007/s00221-014-3861-9
M3 - Journal article
VL - 232
SP - 1689
EP - 1698
JO - Experimental Brain Research
JF - Experimental Brain Research
SN - 0014-4819
IS - 6
ER -
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