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The human primary somatosensory cortex encodes imagined movement in the absence of sensory information.


ABSTRACT: Classical systems neuroscience positions primary sensory areas as early feed-forward processing stations for refining incoming sensory information. This view may oversimplify their role given extensive bi-directional connectivity with multimodal cortical and subcortical regions. Here we show that single units in human primary somatosensory cortex encode imagined reaches in a cognitive motor task, but not other sensory-motor variables such as movement plans or imagined arm position. A population reference-frame analysis demonstrates coding relative to the cued starting hand location suggesting that imagined reaching movements are encoded relative to imagined limb position. These results imply a potential role for primary somatosensory cortex in cognitive imagery, engagement during motor production in the absence of sensation or expected sensation, and suggest that somatosensory cortex can provide control signals for future neural prosthetic systems.

SUBMITTER: Jafari M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7732821 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The human primary somatosensory cortex encodes imagined movement in the absence of sensory information.

Jafari Matiar M   Aflalo Tyson T   Chivukula Srinivas S   Kellis Spencer Sterling SS   Salas Michelle Armenta MA   Norman Sumner Lee SL   Pejsa Kelsie K   Liu Charles Yu CY   Andersen Richard Alan RA  

Communications biology 20201211 1


Classical systems neuroscience positions primary sensory areas as early feed-forward processing stations for refining incoming sensory information. This view may oversimplify their role given extensive bi-directional connectivity with multimodal cortical and subcortical regions. Here we show that single units in human primary somatosensory cortex encode imagined reaches in a cognitive motor task, but not other sensory-motor variables such as movement plans or imagined arm position. A population  ...[more]

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