Excitability modulates synaesthesia

Induction of mirror-touch synaesthesia by increasing somatosensory cortical excitability

Figure 1. Induction of mirror-touch synaesthesia by transcranial electrical stimulation. (A) An incongruent visuo-tactile (VT) trial of the Hand task. The task (~6 min) was to report the site of the actual touch on the hand, while ignoring the viewed touch at the same (Congruent VT) or opposite location (Incongruent VT). In counterbalanced sessions, anodal or sham tDCS (1.5 mA, ~16 min) to S1 o...

Months in space: synaesthesia modulates attention and action.

Month-space synaesthetes experience months as sequences arranged in spatially defined configurations. While most works on synaesthesia have studied its perceptual implications, this study focuses on the synaesthetic influence on a synaesthete's action behaviour. S.M., a month-space synaesthete, and 5 matched controls performed a spatial Stroop-like task in a haptics and virtual reality combined...

Adenosine postsynaptically modulates supraoptic neuronal excitability.

Effects of adenosine on the excitability of supraoptic nucleus neurons were investigated in whole cell patch-clamp experiments conducted in horizontal slices of rat hypothalamus. Adenosine (10-100 muM) inhibited all neurons tested by reducing or abolishing spontaneous or evoked discharge. Large hyperpolarizations were seen, averaging -6.08 +/- 0.83 mV below resting membrane potential, and actio...

Synaesthesia

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