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Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle

Perception and cognition are modulated by the phase of the cardiac signal in which the stimuli are presented. This has been shown by locking the presentation of stimuli to distinct cardiac phases. However, in everyday life sensory information is not presented in this passive and phase-locked manner,...

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Autores principales: Galvez-Pol, Alejandro, Virdee, Pavandeep, Villacampa, Javier, Kilner, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9671494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36222653
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78126
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author Galvez-Pol, Alejandro
Virdee, Pavandeep
Villacampa, Javier
Kilner, James
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Virdee, Pavandeep
Villacampa, Javier
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description Perception and cognition are modulated by the phase of the cardiac signal in which the stimuli are presented. This has been shown by locking the presentation of stimuli to distinct cardiac phases. However, in everyday life sensory information is not presented in this passive and phase-locked manner, instead we actively move and control our sensors to perceive the world. Whether active sensing is coupled and modulated with the cardiac cycle remains largely unknown. Here, we recorded the electrocardiograms of human participants while they actively performed a tactile grating orientation task. We show that the duration of subjects’ touch varied as a function of the cardiac phase in which they initiated it. Touches initiated in the systole phase were held for longer periods of time than touches initiated in the diastole phase. This effect was most pronounced when elongating the duration of the touches to sense the most difficult gratings. Conversely, while touches in the control condition were coupled to the cardiac cycle, their length did not vary as a function of the phase in which these were initiated. Our results reveal that we actively spend more time sensing during systole periods, the cardiac phase associated with lower perceptual sensitivity (vs. diastole). In line with interoceptive inference accounts, these results indicate that we actively adjust the acquisition of sense data to our internal bodily cycles.
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spelling pubmed-96714942022-11-18 Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle Galvez-Pol, Alejandro Virdee, Pavandeep Villacampa, Javier Kilner, James eLife Neuroscience Perception and cognition are modulated by the phase of the cardiac signal in which the stimuli are presented. This has been shown by locking the presentation of stimuli to distinct cardiac phases. However, in everyday life sensory information is not presented in this passive and phase-locked manner, instead we actively move and control our sensors to perceive the world. Whether active sensing is coupled and modulated with the cardiac cycle remains largely unknown. Here, we recorded the electrocardiograms of human participants while they actively performed a tactile grating orientation task. We show that the duration of subjects’ touch varied as a function of the cardiac phase in which they initiated it. Touches initiated in the systole phase were held for longer periods of time than touches initiated in the diastole phase. This effect was most pronounced when elongating the duration of the touches to sense the most difficult gratings. Conversely, while touches in the control condition were coupled to the cardiac cycle, their length did not vary as a function of the phase in which these were initiated. Our results reveal that we actively spend more time sensing during systole periods, the cardiac phase associated with lower perceptual sensitivity (vs. diastole). In line with interoceptive inference accounts, these results indicate that we actively adjust the acquisition of sense data to our internal bodily cycles. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2022-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9671494/ /pubmed/36222653 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78126 Text en © 2022, Galvez-Pol et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Galvez-Pol, Alejandro
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Kilner, James
Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle
title Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle
title_full Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle
title_fullStr Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle
title_full_unstemmed Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle
title_short Active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle
title_sort active tactile discrimination is coupled with and modulated by the cardiac cycle
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9671494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36222653
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78126
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