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Touching lips and hearing fingers: effector-specific congruency between tactile and auditory stimulation modulates N1 amplitude and alpha desynchronization

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Understanding the interactions between audition and sensorimotor processes is of theoretical importance, particularly in relation to speech processing. Although one current focus in this area is on interactions between auditory perception and the motor system, there has been less research on connections between the auditory and somatosensory modalities. The current study takes a novel approach to this omission by examining specific auditory–tactile interactions in the context of speech and non-speech sound production. Electroencephalography was used to examine brain responses when participants were presented with speech syllables (a bilabial sound /pa/ and a non-labial sound /ka/) or finger-snapping sounds that were simultaneously paired with tactile stimulation of either the lower lip or the right middle finger. Analyses focused on the sensory-evoked N1 in the event-related potential and the extent of alpha band desynchronization elicited by the stimuli. N1 amplitude over fronto-central sites was significantly enhanced when the bilabial /pa/ sound was paired with tactile lip stimulation and when the finger-snapping sound was paired with tactile stimulation of the finger. Post-stimulus alpha desynchronization at central sites was also enhanced when the /pa/ sound was accompanied by tactile stimulation of the lip. These novel findings indicate that neural aspects of somatosensory–auditory interactions are influenced by the congruency between the location of the bodily touch and the bodily origin of a perceived sound.

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The authors thank Ashley Drew, Staci Weiss, Rebecca Laconi, Jeb Taylor and Rebecca Feldman for their help with data collection. The writing of this article was supported in part by awards from the National Institutes of Health (1R21HD083756) and the National Science Foundation (BCS-1460889 and SMA-1540619).

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Shen, G., Meltzoff, A.N. & Marshall, P.J. Touching lips and hearing fingers: effector-specific congruency between tactile and auditory stimulation modulates N1 amplitude and alpha desynchronization. Exp Brain Res 236, 13–29 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-017-5104-3

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