Perceived timing of cutaneous vibration and intracortical microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex. 2022

Breanne Christie, and Luke E Osborn, and David P McMullen, and Ambarish S Pawar, and Tessy M Thomas, and Sliman J Bensmaia, and Pablo A Celnik, and Matthew S Fifer, and Francesco V Tenore
Research and Exploratory Development Department, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA. Electronic address: breanne.christie.phd@gmail.com.

Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) of somatosensory cortex can partially restore the sense of touch. Though ICMS bypasses much of the neuraxis, prior studies have found that conscious detection of touch elicited by ICMS lags behind the detection of cutaneous vibration. These findings may have been influenced by mismatched stimulus intensities, which can impact temporal perception. Evaluate the relative latency at which intensity-matched vibration and ICMS are perceived by a human participant. One person implanted with microelectrode arrays in somatosensory cortex performed reaction time and temporal order judgment (TOJ) tasks. To measure reaction time, the participant reported when he perceived vibration or ICMS. In the TOJ task, vibration and ICMS were sequentially presented and the participant reported which stimulus occurred first. To verify that the participant could distinguish between stimuli, he also performed a modality discrimination task, in which he indicated if he felt vibration, ICMS, or both. When vibration was matched in perceived intensity to high-amplitude ICMS, vibration was perceived, on average, 48 ms faster than ICMS. However, in the TOJ task, both sensations arose at comparable latencies, with points of subjective simultaneity not significantly different from zero. The participant could discriminate between tactile modalities above chance level but was more inclined to report feeling vibration than ICMS. The latencies of ICMS-evoked percepts are slower than their mechanical counterparts. However, differences in latencies are small, particularly when stimuli are matched for intensity, implying that ICMS-based somatosensory feedback is rapid enough to be effective in neuroprosthetic applications.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008839 Microelectrodes Electrodes with an extremely small tip, used in a voltage clamp or other apparatus to stimulate or record bioelectric potentials of single cells intracellularly or extracellularly. (Dorland, 28th ed) Electrodes, Miniaturized,Electrode, Miniaturized,Microelectrode,Miniaturized Electrode,Miniaturized Electrodes
D004558 Electric Stimulation Use of electric potential or currents to elicit biological responses. Stimulation, Electric,Electrical Stimulation,Electric Stimulations,Electrical Stimulations,Stimulation, Electrical,Stimulations, Electric,Stimulations, Electrical
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013003 Somatosensory Cortex Area of the parietal lobe concerned with receiving sensations such as movement, pain, pressure, position, temperature, touch, and vibration. It lies posterior to the central sulcus. Brodmann Area 1,Brodmann Area 2,Brodmann Area 3,Brodmann Areas 1, 2, 3,Brodmann Areas 1, 2, and 3,Brodmann Areas 3, 1, 2,Brodmann Areas 3, 1, and 2,Brodmann's Area 1,Brodmann's Area 2,Brodmann's Area 3,Brodmann's Areas 1, 2, and 3,Brodmann's Areas 3, 1, and 2,Parietal-Opercular Cortex,Primary Somesthetic Area,S1 Cortex,S2 Cortex,SII Cortex,Anterior Parietal Cortex,Gyrus Postcentralis,Post Central Gyrus,Postcentral Gyrus,Primary Somatic Sensory Area,Primary Somatosensory Area,Primary Somatosensory Areas,Primary Somatosensory Cortex,SI Cortex,Second Somatic Sensory Area,Secondary Sensory Cortex,Secondary Somatosensory Area,Secondary Somatosensory Cortex,Area 1, Brodmann,Area 1, Brodmann's,Area 2, Brodmann,Area 2, Brodmann's,Area 3, Brodmann,Area 3, Brodmann's,Area, Primary Somatosensory,Area, Primary Somesthetic,Area, Secondary Somatosensory,Areas, Primary Somatosensory,Brodmanns Area 1,Brodmanns Area 2,Brodmanns Area 3,Cortex, Anterior Parietal,Cortex, Parietal-Opercular,Cortex, Primary Somatosensory,Cortex, S1,Cortex, S2,Cortex, SI,Cortex, SII,Cortex, Secondary Sensory,Cortex, Secondary Somatosensory,Cortex, Somatosensory,Gyrus, Post Central,Gyrus, Postcentral,Parietal Cortex, Anterior,Parietal Opercular Cortex,Parietal-Opercular Cortices,Primary Somatosensory Cortices,Primary Somesthetic Areas,S1 Cortices,S2 Cortices,SII Cortices,Secondary Somatosensory Areas,Sensory Cortex, Secondary,Somatosensory Area, Primary,Somatosensory Area, Secondary,Somatosensory Areas, Primary,Somatosensory Cortex, Primary,Somatosensory Cortex, Secondary,Somesthetic Area, Primary,Somesthetic Areas, Primary
D014110 Touch Sensation of making physical contact with objects, animate or inanimate. Tactile stimuli are detected by MECHANORECEPTORS in the skin and mucous membranes. Tactile Sense,Sense of Touch,Taction,Sense, Tactile,Senses, Tactile,Tactile Senses,Tactions,Touch Sense,Touch Senses
D014732 Vibration A continuing periodic change in displacement with respect to a fixed reference. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed) Vibrations

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