Cortical processing associated with orofacial somatosensory function in speech has received limited experimental attention due to the difficulty of providing precise and controlled stimulation. This article introduces a technique for recording somatosensory event-related potentials (ERP) that uses a novel mechanical stimulation method involving skin deformation using a robotic device. Controlle...

The present paper reviews aspects of locomotor sensorimotor interactions by focussing on work performed in spinal cats. We provide a brief overview of spinal locomotion and describe the effects of various types of sensory deprivations (e.g. rhizotomies, and lesions of muscle and cutaneous nerves) to highlight the spinal neuroplasticity necessary for adapting to sensory loss. Recent work on plas...

Sensory cortical networks are commonly regarded as stable, changing only in the face of prolonged alteration of sensory input. There is increasing evidence, however, that the functional connectivity of cortical networks changes significantly, but reversibly, in response to conditions of sensory stimulation similar to those encountered in everyday life. In this review, we provide examples of sen...

Olfactory sensory stimulation induces a fast-phase arrest response (FPA-R) of the blowfly heart activity that has been described as a sensitive tool for testing insect reactivity to odor perception. We analyzed FPA-R occurrence to repeated olfactory stimulation with low and high 1-hexanol concentrations that are behaviorally attractant and repellent, respectively, in the blowfly. FPA-R occurren...

Introduction: Sensory processing is profoundly regulated by brain neuromodulatory systems. One of the main neuromodulators serotonin which influences higher cognitive functions, such as different aspects perceptual processing. Accordingly, malfunction in serotonergic system may lead to visual illusion psychiatric disorders, autism and schizophrenia. This study aims investigate modulation respon...

Coordinated reset (CR) stimulation is a desynchronizing stimulation technique based on timely coordinated phase resets of sub-populations of a synchronized neuronal ensemble. It has initially been computationally developed for electrical deep brain stimulation (DBS), to enable an effective desynchronization and unlearning of pathological synchrony and connectivity (anti-kindling). Here we compu...

Early sensory cortex is typically investigated in response to sensory stimulation, masking the contribution of internal signals. Recently, van Kerkoerle and colleagues reported that attention and memory signals segregate from sensory signals within specific layers of primary visual cortex, providing insight into the role of internal signals in sensory processing.

Behavioral adaptations and the underlying neural plasticity may not simply result from peripheral information conveyed by sensory inputs. Central neuronal networks often spontaneously generate neuronal activity patterns that may also contribute to sensorimotor integration and behavioral adaptations. The present study explored a novel form of sensory-induced plasticity by which the resulting cha...

Significance Sensory processing depends upon the integration of widely distributed neural assemblies. During every day listening, our ears receive different information (due to interaural time and amplitude differences) it is known that both hemispheres extract acoustic features. Nonetheless, features belonging same source become integrated. It has been suggested brain overcomes this “binding p...