Konkle Talia, Wang Qi, Hayward Vincent, Moore Christopher I
McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 46-2171, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Curr Biol. 2009 May 12;19(9):745-50. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.03.035. Epub 2009 Apr 9.
Current views on multisensory motion integration assume separate substrates where visual motion perceptually dominates tactile motion [1, 2]. However, recent neuroimaging findings demonstrate strong activation of visual motion processing areas by tactile stimuli [3-6], implying a potentially bidirectional relationship. To test the relationship between visual and tactile motion processing, we examined the transfer of motion aftereffects. In the well-known visual motion aftereffect, adapting to visual motion in one direction causes a subsequently presented stationary stimulus to be perceived as moving in the opposite direction [7, 8]. The existence of motion aftereffects in the tactile domain was debated [9-11], though robust tactile motion aftereffects have recently been demonstrated [12, 13]. By using a motion adaptation paradigm, we found that repeated exposure to visual motion in a given direction produced a tactile motion aftereffect, the illusion of motion in the opponent direction across the finger pad. We also observed that repeated exposure to tactile motion induces a visual motion aftereffect, biasing the perceived direction of counterphase gratings. These crossmodal aftereffects, operating both from vision to touch and from touch to vision, present strong behavioral evidence that the processing of visual and tactile motion rely on shared representations that dynamically impact modality-specific perception.
当前关于多感官运动整合的观点认为,在视觉运动在感知上主导触觉运动的情况下,存在不同的神经基质[1,2]。然而,最近的神经影像学研究结果表明,触觉刺激会强烈激活视觉运动处理区域[3-6],这意味着可能存在双向关系。为了测试视觉和触觉运动处理之间的关系,我们研究了运动后效的转移。在著名的视觉运动后效中,适应一个方向的视觉运动会使随后呈现的静止刺激被感知为向相反方向运动[7,8]。触觉领域中运动后效的存在曾存在争议[9-11],不过最近已证实存在强烈的触觉运动后效[12,13]。通过使用运动适应范式,我们发现,在给定方向上反复暴露于视觉运动可产生触觉运动后效,即手指垫上出现相反方向的运动错觉。我们还观察到,反复暴露于触觉运动可诱发视觉运动后效,使反相光栅的感知方向产生偏差。这些跨模态后效,无论是从视觉到触觉还是从触觉到视觉,都提供了强有力的行为证据,表明视觉和触觉运动的处理依赖于共享表征,这些表征会动态影响特定模态的感知。