期刊
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
卷 134, 期 1, 页码 107-125出版社
SPRINGER-VERLAG
DOI: 10.1007/s002210000412
关键词
multisensory; sensory fusion; posture; vision; somatosensation; human
资金
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R29NS035070] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NINDS NIH HHS [R29-NS35070-01A2] Funding Source: Medline
Despite extensive research on the influence of visual, vestibular and somatosensory information on human postural control, it remains unclear how these sensory channels are fused for self-orientation. The focus of the present study was to test whether a linear additive model could account for the fusion of touch and vision for postural control. We simultaneously manipulated visual and somatosensory (touch) stimuli in five conditions of single- and multisensory stimulation. The visual stimulus was a display of random dots projected onto a screen in front of the standing subject. The somatosensory stimulus was a rigid plate which subjects contacted lightly (<1 N of force) with their right index fingertip. In each condition, one sensory stimulus oscillated (dynamic) in the medial-lateral direction while the other stimulus was either dynamic, static or absent. The results qualitatively supported five predictions of the linear additive model in that the patterns of gain and variability across conditions were consistent with model predictions. However, a strict quantitative comparison revealed significant deviations from model. predictions, indicating that the sensory fusion process clearly has nonlinear aspects. We suggest that the sensory fusion process behaved in an approximately linear fashion because the experimental paradigm tested postural control very close to the equilibrium point of vertical upright.
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