Tactile suppression stems from specific sensorimotor predictions.

ABSTRACT: The ability to sample sensory information with our hands is crucial for smooth and efficient interactions with the world. Despite this important role of touch, tactile sensations on a moving hand are perceived weaker than when presented on the same but stationary hand. This phenomenon of tactile suppression has been explained by predictive mechanisms, such as internal forward models, that estimate future sensory states of the body on the basis of the motor command and suppress the associated predicted sensory feedback. The origins of tactile suppression have sparked a lot of debate, with contemporary accounts claiming that suppression is independent of sensorimotor predictions and is instead due to an unspecific mechanism. Here, we target this debate and provide evidence for specific tacti

SUBMITTER: Fuehrer E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9171803 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature