Previous researchonmultisensoryintegrationduringgoal-directednaturalactionsreportedthatvisual, proprioceptive,auditoryandorthonasalolfactorystimulationhastheabilitytoinfluencemotorcontrol. In thisstudy,weusedkinematicstoinvestigatetheintegrationbetweenvisionandflavourperception during reach-to-graspmovements.Participantswererequestedtodrinkasipofflavouredsolutionand then graspanobjectpresentedincentralvision.Theresultsindicatethatwhentheobjectsevokedbythe flavour andbythevisualtargetwereofasimilarsize(i.e.,largeorsmall)andevokedthesamekindof hand shapinginordertobegrasped(i.e.,congruentcondition)facilitationeffectsemerged.Conversely, when theobjectevokedbytheflavourandbythevisualtargetwasofadifferentsizeandevokeda differentkindofhandshapinginordertobegrasped(i.e.,incongruentcondition)interferenceeffects emerged.Interferenceeffects,however,wereonlyevidentforthecombinationinvolvingalargevisual target anda‘small’flavour.Whencomparinghandkinematicsbetweenthecongruentanda‘noflavour’ condition(i.e.,water),facilitationeffectsemergedinfavouroftheformercondition.Takentogether, these resultsindicatethecontributionofcomplexchemosensorystimulifortheplanningandexecution of visuallyguidedreachtograspmovements.And,contributetothecurrentdebateregardingthe multisensorynatureofthesensorimotortransformationsunderlyingmotorperformance.
Grasping a fruit. Hands do what flavour says / Parma, Valentina; Ghirardello, D; Tirindelli, R; Castiello, Umberto. - In: APPETITE. - ISSN 0195-6663. - 56:2(2011), pp. 249-254. [10.1016/j.appet.2010.12.013]
Grasping a fruit. Hands do what flavour says
PARMA, Valentina;
2011-01-01
Abstract
Previous researchonmultisensoryintegrationduringgoal-directednaturalactionsreportedthatvisual, proprioceptive,auditoryandorthonasalolfactorystimulationhastheabilitytoinfluencemotorcontrol. In thisstudy,weusedkinematicstoinvestigatetheintegrationbetweenvisionandflavourperception during reach-to-graspmovements.Participantswererequestedtodrinkasipofflavouredsolutionand then graspanobjectpresentedincentralvision.Theresultsindicatethatwhentheobjectsevokedbythe flavour andbythevisualtargetwereofasimilarsize(i.e.,largeorsmall)andevokedthesamekindof hand shapinginordertobegrasped(i.e.,congruentcondition)facilitationeffectsemerged.Conversely, when theobjectevokedbytheflavourandbythevisualtargetwasofadifferentsizeandevokeda differentkindofhandshapinginordertobegrasped(i.e.,incongruentcondition)interferenceeffects emerged.Interferenceeffects,however,wereonlyevidentforthecombinationinvolvingalargevisual target anda‘small’flavour.Whencomparinghandkinematicsbetweenthecongruentanda‘noflavour’ condition(i.e.,water),facilitationeffectsemergedinfavouroftheformercondition.Takentogether, these resultsindicatethecontributionofcomplexchemosensorystimulifortheplanningandexecution of visuallyguidedreachtograspmovements.And,contributetothecurrentdebateregardingthe multisensorynatureofthesensorimotortransformationsunderlyingmotorperformance.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.