Kolasinski, J;
Makin, TR;
Logan, JP;
Jbabdi, S;
Clare, S;
Stagg, CJ;
Johansen-Berg, H;
(2016)
Perceptually relevant remapping of human somatotopy in 24 hours.
eLife
, 5
, Article e17280. 10.7554/eLife.17280.
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Abstract
Experience-dependent reorganisation of functional maps in the cerebral cortex is well described in the primary sensory cortices. However, there is relatively little evidence for such cortical reorganisation over the short-term. Using human somatosensory cortex as a model, we investigated the effects of a 24 hr gluing manipulation in which the right index and right middle fingers (digits 2 and 3) were adjoined with surgical glue. Somatotopic representations, assessed with two 7 tesla fMRI protocols, revealed rapid off-target reorganisation in the non-manipulated fingers following gluing, with the representation of the ring finger (digit 4) shifted towards the little finger (digit 5) and away from the middle finger (digit 3). These shifts were also evident in two behavioural tasks conducted in an independent cohort, showing reduced sensitivity for discriminating the temporal order of stimuli to the ring and little fingers, and increased substitution errors across this pair on a speeded reaction time task.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Perceptually relevant remapping of human somatotopy in 24 hours |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.7554/eLife.17280 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.17280 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © Kolasinski et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1537564 |
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