Perceiving your hand moving: BOLD suppression in sensory cortices and the role of the cerebellum in the detection of feedback delays

Abstract

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Seeing your own or someone else's hand moving in accordance with your action: The neural interaction of agency and hand identity

“…Since the processing of sensory information of both action and feedback is suppressed during active movements, it is likely that the temporal comparison between action and feedback is affected as well. While the behavioral effects in the current experiment replicate previous results showing worse delay detection performances for actively compared to passively generated movement feedback (Arikan et al, ; Pazen et al, ; van Kemenade et al, ), it contradicts studies reporting enhanced detection performances during active versus passive movements (Schmalenbach, Billino, Kircher, van Kemenade, & Straube, ; Shimada, Qi, & Hiraki, ; van Kemenade et al, ). Importantly, studies showing enhancement effects have used button presses producing briefly displayed action outcomes presented at the end of the movement.…”

“…In line with this, it has been demonstrated that actively relative to passively generated sensory input is associated with less neural processing (suppression effect), in auditory (e.g., Heschl's gyrus), somatosensory (e.g., postcentral gyrus), and visual (e.g., calcarine sulcus) areas for discrete actions (Blakemore, Wolpert, & Frith, ; Straube et al, ). Similar effects were reported in visual and somatosensory cortices as well as the right posterior superior temporal sulcus for continuous action feedback such as videos of a moving hand (Arikan et al, ; Limanowski, Sarasso, & Blankenburg, ; Pazen et al, ).…”

“…Previous studies investigating delay detection performances during active and passive movements have mostly used button presses and discrete action outcomes, revealing enhanced performances for actively generated feedback (Shimada, Hiraki, & Oda, ; van Kemenade et al, ). In contrast, for feedback displaying continuous hand movements, delay detection performances are decreased for active compared to passive movements, indicating that perceptual suppression impairs the comparison between continuous actions and feedback in the temporal domain (Arikan et al, ; Pazen et al, ; van Kemenade et al, ). Furthermore, delay detection tasks have been used to investigate the influence of hand appearance on the perception of action feedback (Hoover & Harris, , ; Zopf, Friedman, & Williams, ).…”

“…This design allowed us to investigate the contributions of agency (active vs. passive movements) and hand identity (“self” vs. “other” feedback) to the perception of sensory action consequences. Based on the literature, we expected a suppression effect reflected by less BOLD activation in sensory areas (Arikan et al, ; Blakemore et al, ; Limanowski et al, ; Pazen et al, ; Straube et al, ) and worse delay detection performances (Arikan et al, ; Pazen et al, ; van Kemenade et al, ) during active than passive movements. Moreover, we assumed that forward models take hand identity into account when predicting the sensory consequences of one's own action.…”

Introduction to special issue on “Prediction in Perception and Action”

“…Thus, visual information can be used to generate somatosensory predictions for the control of reaching and grasping. Arikan et al (2019) also demonstrate the multisensory nature of suppression during self-generated movements. They found reduced blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) activity in somatosensory, visual, and auditory regions during self-generated movements (vs. passive, externally generated movements).…”