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The impact and specificity of nerve perturbation on novel vibrotactile sensory letter learning
Steven R Passmore1, Jessica Bosse, Bernadette Murphy
1Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University , Hamilton, Ontario , Canada .
Somatosensory & Motor Research
|May 22, 2014
Abstract:
The purposes of this study were to determine if induced radiating paresthesia interferes with (a) acquisition and/or (b) utilization of complex tactile information, and (c) identify whether interference reflects tactile masking or response competition. Radiating ulnar (experiment 1) and median (experiment 2) nerve paresthesia was quantified on ulnar innervated vibrotactile Morse code letter acquisition and recollection tasks. Induced paresthesia differentially impacted letter acquisition and recollection, but only when presented to the same anatomical spatial location.