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Macklin AS, Yau JM, Fischer-Baum S, O'Malley MK. Representational Similarity Analysis for Tracking Neural Correlates of Haptic Learning on a Multimodal Device. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HAPTICS 2023; 16:424-435. [PMID: 37556331 PMCID: PMC10605963 DOI: 10.1109/toh.2023.3303838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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A goal of wearable haptic devices has been to enable haptic communication, where individuals learn to map information typically processed visually or aurally to haptic cues via a process of cross-modal associative learning. Neural correlates have been used to evaluate haptic perception and may provide a more objective approach to assess association performance than more commonly used behavioral measures of performance. In this article, we examine Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) of electroencephalography (EEG) as a framework to evaluate how the neural representation of multifeatured haptic cues changes with association training. We focus on the first phase of cross-modal associative learning, perception of multimodal cues. A participant learned to map phonemes to multimodal haptic cues, and EEG data were acquired before and after training to create neural representational spaces that were compared to theoretical models. Our perceptual model showed better correlations to the neural representational space before training, while the feature-based model showed better correlations with the post-training data. These results suggest that training may lead to a sharpening of the sensory response to haptic cues. Our results show promise that an EEG-RSA approach can capture a shift in the representational space of cues, as a means to track haptic learning.
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Norman JF, Baig M, Eaton JR, Graham JD, Vincent TE. Aging and the visual perception of object size. Sci Rep 2022; 12:17148. [PMID: 36229476 PMCID: PMC9561717 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22141-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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An experiment evaluated the ability of 30 younger and older adults to visually judge object size under three conditions: (1) full cue, (2) in the dark, with linear perspective, and (3) in complete darkness. Each observer made repeated judgments for the same square stimuli (the task was to adjust a separation until it matched the perceived size of the squares), enabling an evaluation of precision as well as accuracy. The judgments were just as accurate in the dark with linear perspective condition as in the full cue condition, indicating that linear perspective serves as an important source of optical information to support the perception of object size). In contrast, in complete darkness (where linear perspective information was unavailable), the accuracy of the observers' judgments was poor. Finally, there was no difference in either the accuracy or the precision of the observers' judgments between the two age groups, despite the fact that the older adults were more than 50 years older than the younger adults (mean age of the younger and older adults was 22.3 and 74.1 years, respectively). The ability to visually perceive object size is well maintained with increasing age, unlike a number of other important visual abilities.
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- J. Farley Norman
- grid.268184.10000 0001 2286 2224Department of Psychological Sciences, Ogden College of Science and Engineering, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd. #22030, Bowling Green, KY 42101-2030 USA ,grid.268184.10000 0001 2286 2224Center for Applied Science in Health and Aging, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101-2030 USA
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- grid.268184.10000 0001 2286 2224Department of Psychological Sciences, Ogden College of Science and Engineering, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd. #22030, Bowling Green, KY 42101-2030 USA
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- grid.268184.10000 0001 2286 2224Department of Psychological Sciences, Ogden College of Science and Engineering, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd. #22030, Bowling Green, KY 42101-2030 USA
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- Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science, Bowling Green, KY USA
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- grid.268184.10000 0001 2286 2224Department of Psychological Sciences, Ogden College of Science and Engineering, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd. #22030, Bowling Green, KY 42101-2030 USA
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Wandelt SK, Kellis S, Bjånes DA, Pejsa K, Lee B, Liu C, Andersen RA. Decoding grasp and speech signals from the cortical grasp circuit in a tetraplegic human. Neuron 2022; 110:1777-1787.e3. [PMID: 35364014 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.03.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Revised: 02/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/08/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The cortical grasp network encodes planning and execution of grasps and processes spoken and written aspects of language. High-level cortical areas within this network are attractive implant sites for brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). While a tetraplegic patient performed grasp motor imagery and vocalized speech, neural activity was recorded from the supramarginal gyrus (SMG), ventral premotor cortex (PMv), and somatosensory cortex (S1). In SMG and PMv, five imagined grasps were well represented by firing rates of neuronal populations during visual cue presentation. During motor imagery, these grasps were significantly decodable from all brain areas. During speech production, SMG encoded both spoken grasp types and the names of five colors. Whereas PMv neurons significantly modulated their activity during grasping, SMG's neural population broadly encoded features of both motor imagery and speech. Together, these results indicate that brain signals from high-level areas of the human cortex could be used for grasping and speech BMI applications.
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- Sarah K Wandelt
- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; USC Neurorestoration Center, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; USC Neurorestoration Center, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Department of Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; USC Neurorestoration Center, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, Downey, CA 90242, USA
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Pandey S. IL-6-induced upregulation of T-type Ca 2+ currents and sensitization of DRG nociceptors is attenuated by MNK inhibition: translational research perspective. J Neurophysiol 2020; 124:305-306. [PMID: 32663420 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00372.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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- Saumya Pandey
- Department of Clinical Research, Indira-IVF Hospital, Udaipur, India
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