Every movement unfolds with a simple question: Where is my body? The nervous system answers through proprioception - the sense of limb position (static position sense) and movement (dynamic propriocep...

Our study provides novel insights into the planning and execution of coordinated eye-hand movements by showing that oculomotor responses reflect predictive processes related to motor planning under e...

Introducing delays to visual movement feedback or displacing it in space is a common experimental manipulation to study the neurocomputational basis of self–other distinction. While both manipulations...

A weighted integration of visual and proprioceptive movement feedback is key for an adaptive body representation by the brain. Previous work has suggested a relationship between alpha and beta oscilla...

The modulation of oscillations at alpha and beta frequency ranges recorded over sensory cortices has been linked to the top-down weighting of sensory information relative to (competing) information from other modalities. Here, using a virtual reality-based hand-target matching task under visuo-proprioceptive conflict, we tested whether alpha-/beta-tACS over the occipital cortex would improve action performance when conflicting visual movement feedback needed to be ignored in favor of proprioception. Participants had to match a target rhythm with either their unseen real hand (RH) grasping movements, or with the movements of a virtual hand (VH) that displayed their actual movements after a constant time delay. Visual movement feedback was, consequently, either task-relevant (VH task) or a distractor (RH task). In a cross-over, double-blind, within-subject design, we applied either low-intensity (2 mA peak-to-peak) transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) at 10 Hz (“alpha”) or 20 Hz (“beta”), or sham, over the occipital cortex during this task. Neither alpha- nor beta-tACS significantly affected hand-target matching performance, but fixation variability in the RH condition significantly decreased during beta-tACS relative to sham stimulation. Thus, despite not directly modulating manual performance, occipital beta-tACS could have facilitated ignoring the mismatching (distracting) visual movement feedback when needed.

Abstract. Visuomotor self–other distinction relies on the comparison of forward predictions from one’s motor system with visual movement data. Previous wor

The modulation of oscillations at alpha and beta frequency ranges recorded over sensory cortices has been linked to the top-down weighting of sensory information relative to (competing) information fr...

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The role of the cerebellum in motor functions is well understood. But why is the same circuitry engaged in functions such as working memory, language, and social cognition? This Unsolved Mystery…

We applied dynamic causal modeling to fMRI data acquired during a virtual reality based visuomotor task. Visuomotor adaptation, compared with no-adaptation, was associated with an increased excitator...

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