Tactile motion provides critical information for perception and manipulation of objects in touch. Perceived directions of tactile motion are primarily defined in the environmental coordinate, which means they change drastically with body posture even when the same skin sensors are stimulated. Despite the ecological importance of this perceptual constancy, the sensory processing underlying tactile directional remapping remains poorly understood. The present study psychophysically investigated the mechanisms underlying directional remapping in human tactile motion processing by examining whether finger posture modulates the direction of the tactile motion aftereffect (MAE) induced by inter-finger apparent motions. We introduced conflicts in the adaptation direction between somatotopic and environmental spaces by having participants change their finger posture between adaptation and test phases. In a critical condition, they touched stimulators with crossed index and middle fingers during adaptation but with uncrossed fingers during tests. Since the adaptation effect was incongruent between the somatotopic and environmental spaces, the direction of the MAE reflects the coordinate of tactile motion processing. The results demonstrated that the tactile MAE was induced in accordance with the motion direction determined by the environmental rather than the somatotopic space. In addition, it was found that though the physical adaptation of the test fingers was not changed, the tactile MAE disappeared when the adaptation stimuli were vertically aligned or when subjective motion perception was suppressed during adaptation. We also found that the tactile MAE, measured with our procedure, did not transfer across different hands, which implies that the observed MAEs mainly reflect neural adaptations occurring within sensor-specific, tactile-specific processing. The present findings provide a novel behavioral method to analyze the neural representation for directional remapping of tactile motion within tactile sensory processing in the human brain.

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触觉运动为感知和操纵触摸物体提供了关键信息。触觉运动的感知方向主要是在环境坐标中定义的,这意味着即使在刺激相同的皮肤传感器时,它们也会随着身体姿势的变化而急剧变化。尽管这种感知恒定性具有生态重要性,但触觉方向重映射的感官处理仍知之甚少。本研究通过检查手指姿势是否调节手指间表观运动引起的触觉运动后效 (MAE) 的方向,从心理上研究了人类触觉运动处理中方向重映射的潜在机制。通过让参与者在适应阶段和测试阶段之间改变手指姿势,我们引入了躯体和环境空间之间适应方向上的冲突。在危急情况下,他们在适应过程中接触了食指和中指交叉的刺激器,但在测试过程中没有交叉的手指。由于适应效果在躯体和环境空间之间不一致,因此MAE的方向反映了触觉运动处理的坐标。结果表明,触觉MAE是根据环境而不是躯体空间确定的运动方向诱发的。此外,发现尽管没有改变测试手指的物理适应,但当适应刺激垂直对齐或在适应过程中抑制主观运动感知时,触觉MAE消失了。我们还发现,用我们的程序测量的触觉MAE不会跨不同的手转移,这意味着观察到的MAE主要反映了在特定于传感器,特定于触觉的处理中发生的神经适应。本发现提供了一种新颖的行为方法来分析神经表示,以在人脑的触觉感觉处理中进行触觉运动的方向重映射。

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