Article ; Online: Interchangeable Role of Motor Cortex and Reafference for the Stable Execution of an Orofacial Action.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
2023 Volume 43, Issue 30, Page(s) 5521–5536
Abstract: Animals interact with their environment through mechanically active, mobile sensors. The efficient use of these sensory organs implies the ability to track their position; otherwise, perceptual stability or prehension would be profoundly impeded. The ... ...
| Abstract | Animals interact with their environment through mechanically active, mobile sensors. The efficient use of these sensory organs implies the ability to track their position; otherwise, perceptual stability or prehension would be profoundly impeded. The nervous system may keep track of the position of a sensorimotor organ via two complementary feedback mechanisms-peripheral reafference (external, sensory feedback) and efference copy (internal feedback). Yet, the potential contributions of these mechanisms remain largely unexplored. By training male rats to place one of their vibrissae within a predetermined angular range without contact, a task that depends on knowledge of vibrissa position relative to their face, we found that peripheral reafference is not required. The presence of motor cortex is not required either, except in the absence of peripheral reafference to maintain motor stability. Finally, the red nucleus, which receives descending inputs from motor cortex and cerebellum and projects to facial motoneurons, is critically involved in the execution of the vibrissa positioning task. All told, our results point toward the existence of an internal model that requires either peripheral reafference or motor cortex to optimally drive voluntary motion. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Rats ; Animals ; Male ; Motor Cortex ; Motor Neurons/physiology ; Nervous System Physiological Phenomena ; Cerebellum/physiology ; Vibrissae/physiology ; Somatosensory Cortex/physiology | |||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Publishing date | 2023-07-03 | |||||
| Publishing country | United States | |||||
| Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | |||||
| ZDB-ID | 604637-x | |||||
| ISSN | 1529-2401 ; 0270-6474 | |||||
| ISSN (online) | 1529-2401 | |||||
| ISSN | 0270-6474 | |||||
| DOI | 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2089-22.2023 | |||||
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