Predicting the Multisensory Consequences of One's Own Action: BOLD Suppression in Auditory and Visual Cortices.

ABSTRACT: Predictive mechanisms are essential to successfully interact with the environment and to compensate for delays in the transmission of neural signals. However, whether and how we predict multisensory action outcomes remains largely unknown. Here we investigated the existence of multisensory predictive mechanisms in a context where actions have outcomes in different modalities. During fMRI data acquisition auditory, visual and auditory-visual stimuli were presented in active and passive conditions. In the active condition, a self-initiated button press elicited the stimuli with variable short delays (0-417ms) between action and outcome, and participants had to detect the presence of a delay for auditory or visual outcome (task modality). In the passive condition, stimuli appeared automatical

SUBMITTER: Straube B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5218407 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature