Tactile imagery affects cortical responses to vibrotactile stimulation of the fingertip
Marina Morozova, Lev Yakovlev, Nikolay Syrov, Mikhail Lebedev, Alexander Kaplan · 2024
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Description
Marina Morozova and four co-authors test whether imagining touch changes how the brain answers real touch. Imagery is a core mental skill, but its touch form is far less studied than visual imagery. Their 2024 study recorded brain waves from healthy adults while they imagined touch and while a fingertip was buzzed by vibration. The team measured both the rhythms that imagery stirs and the sharp responses that real taps evoke.
If imagining touch primes the same circuits, imagined and felt touch should interact in the recordings. Such links matter for brain-computer tools and for rehab that uses imagery to retrain feeling. The authors map the interaction in time and frequency. Their work adds the missing sense to a field built on sight.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marina Morozova, Lev Yakovlev, Nikolay Syrov, Mikhail Lebedev, Alexander Kaplan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |