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  • Neuroscience
  • Sensorimotor Control
  • Motor Learning

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  • Optimal sensorimotor control relies on predicting sensory feedback.
  • The brain adjusts muscle activation and sensory filtering when predictability changes.
  • Limited understanding exists on sensorimotor adjustments to increased internal feedback predictability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate how altered internal and external sensory feedback influence muscle activation control.
  • Examine the impact of feedback predictability on sensory input gating.
  • Understand sensorimotor adaptation mechanisms.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed forearm muscle co-activation, somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP), and short afferent inhibition (SAI).
  • Utilized three object manipulation tasks varying in sensory feedback predictability: predictable coupling, uncoupled, and unpredictable coupling.
  • Measured neural and muscular responses during distinct sensorimotor conditions.

Main Results:

  • Reduced muscle co-activation observed in predictable coupling tasks.
  • Less sensory gating (larger subcortical SEP amplitudes) occurred in unpredictable coupling.
  • Short afferent inhibition (SAI) linked to subcortical SEP, indicating subcortical role in gating and M1 inhibition.

Conclusions:

  • Unpredictable tasks necessitate enhanced co-activation and reduced sensory gating for compensation.
  • Predictable tasks allow economized resources via reduced co-activation and increased sensory gating.
  • Findings highlight subcortical mechanisms in adapting sensorimotor control to feedback predictability.