Understanding the link between somatosensory temporal discrimination and movement execution in healthy subjects

• Published in: Physiological reports Vol. 4; no. 18; pp. np - n/a
• Main Authors: Conte, Antonella, Belvisi, Daniele, Manzo, Nicoletta, Bologna, Matteo, Barone, Francesca, Tartaglia, Matteo, Upadhyay, Neeraj, Berardelli, Alfredo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.09.2016; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Achievement tests; Adult; Biomechanical Phenomena; Cortex (somatosensory); Cortex (temporal); Electrical stimuli; Excitability; Female; Finger; Hand - physiology; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Kinematics; Magnetic fields; Male; Mental task performance; Motor Control; Movement; Movement execution; Original Research; Physiology; sensory gating; Sensory Neuroscience; sensory temporal discrimination; Somatosensory Cortex - physiology; Temporal discrimination; Temporal perception; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - methods; Italy; Movement execution; sensory gating; sensory temporal discrimination

The somatosensory temporal discrimination threshold (STDT) is the shortest interval at which an individual recognizes paired stimuli as separate in time. We investigated whether and how voluntary movement modulates STDT in healthy subjects. In 17 healthy participants, we tested STDT during voluntary...