Left caloric vestibular stimulation as a tool to reveal implicit and explicit parameters of body representation |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Human and Systems Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea;2. Center for Neuroscience, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Neuroscience, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea;4. Department of Human and Systems Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | Homeostatic parameters, such as temperature, are related to body representation. In this study, we measured whether caloric vestibular stimulation (CVS) alters body temperature and tactile processing, and if in the direction predicted by a holistic body matrix representation.Skin temperature and tactile two-point discrimination (TPD) acuity were measured for both arms before, immediately after and with a delay from CVS. Participants were also administered a personality questionnaire and an anxiety inventory to rule out confounding factors. Two control experiments were planned to exclude casual variations.Our results show that temperature drops significantly in both arms after CVS. CVS also induces a bilateral improvement in tactile acuity (even though not immediately after but in the delayed condition). Finally, these effects are not due to learning, as demonstrated by the control experiment.In summary, our results suggest that vestibular stimulation updates body representation, supporting the evidence in favor of a body matrix. |
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| Keywords: | Body matrix Homeostasis Body representation Vestibular system Tactile acuity |
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