Restoring sensorimotor function through intracortical interfaces: progress and looming challenges

SJ Bensmaia, LE Miller - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
The loss of a limb or paralysis resulting from spinal cord injury has devastating
consequences on quality of life. One approach to restoring lost sensory and motor abilities in …

Sensory plasticity in human motor learning

DJ Ostry, PL Gribble - Trends in neurosciences, 2016 - cell.com
There is accumulating evidence from behavioral, neurophysiological, and neuroimaging
studies that the acquisition of motor skills involves both perceptual and motor learning …

Neurophysiology of robot-mediated training and therapy: a perspective for future use in clinical populations

DL Turner, A Ramos-Murguialday, N Birbaumer… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The recovery of functional movements following injury to the central nervous system (CNS)
is multifaceted and is accompanied by processes occurring in the injured and non-injured …

Area 2 of primary somatosensory cortex encodes kinematics of the whole arm

RH Chowdhury, JI Glaser, LE Miller - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Proprioception, the sense of body position, movement, and associated forces, remains
poorly understood, despite its critical role in movement. Most studies of area 2, a …

Somatosensory cortical excitability changes precede those in motor cortex during human motor learning

H Ohashi, PL Gribble, DJ Ostry - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Motor learning is associated with plasticity in both motor and somatosensory cortex. It is
known from animal studies that tetanic stimulation to each of these areas individually …

Somatosensory changes associated with motor skill learning

JL Mirdamadi, HJ Block - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Trial-and-error motor adaptation has been linked to somatosensory plasticity and shifts in
proprioception (limb position sense). The role of sensory processing in motor skill learning is …

Interhemispheric connectivity of primary sensory cortex is associated with motor impairment after stroke

I Frías, F Starrs, T Gisiger, J Minuk, A Thiel… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Neuroimaging-derived markers are used to model post-stroke impairment. Among these,
lesion size, corticospinal-tract lesion-load (CST-LL) and resting-state functional-connectivity …

Robot-assisted training of the kinesthetic sense: enhancing proprioception after stroke

D De Santis, J Zenzeri, M Casadio, L Masia… - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Proprioception has a crucial role in promoting or hindering motor learning. In particular, an
intact position sense strongly correlates with the chances of recovery after stroke. A great …

Lombard effect in individuals with nonphonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction: Impact on acoustic, aerodynamic, and vocal fold vibratory parameters

C Castro, P Prado, VM Espinoza, A Testart… - Journal of Speech …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: This exploratory study aims to investigate variations in voice production in the
presence of background noise (Lombard effect) in individuals with nonphonotraumatic vocal …

Functional plasticity in somatosensory cortex supports motor learning by observing

HR McGregor, JGA Cashaback, PL Gribble - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
An influential idea in neuroscience is that the sensory-motor system is activated when
observing the actions of others [1, 2]. This idea has recently been extended to motor …