This anatomical dissociation is consistent with a division of labor between brain regions that support cognitive processes that occur prior to the motor response and brain regions that support response-locked processes such as motor execution, tactile feedback processing, and processing of visual display changes.
This tactile-dependant motor facilitation reflected, for the large part, attentional influences associated with performing tactile discrimination, since execution of a concomitant distraction task abolished facilitation.
Toward this goal, we augmented the Willow Garage PR2 robot with a pair of SynTouch BioTac sensors to capture rich tactile signals during the execution of four exploratory procedures on 60 household objects.
Toward this goal, vision researchers at ICSI augmented the Willow Garage PR2 robot with a pair of SynTouch BioTac sensors to capture rich tactile signals during the execution of four exploratory procedures on 60 household objects.
This idea is further supported by recent findings showing a participation of anterior motor cortical area 4 in complex somatosensory processing [ 29], highlighting the importance of finely tuned central motor control during the execution of tactile exploratory tasks.
The dual-stick controls are a big factor, but the touchscreen is also implemented naturally, with swiping for takedowns and brutal executions giving a visceral, tactile element.
This suggests that SI and SII may associate somatosensory sensations of both tactile and proprioceptive nature with both the execution and observation of actions.
The matching between central motor signals and visual, tactile and proprioceptive feedback that arise during action execution, together with the associated action intention, is thought to be a crucial mechanism involved in action monitoring.
Tactile Systems had no role in the design, execution, analysis, or communication of this investigation.
Tactile and rhythmic cues were provided to ensure correct execution of movements.
Each controller decodes the input it receives from premotor execution-related populations, transforms this input along with some proprioceptive or tactile signals, and sets joint angle targets for PD controllers that apply torque to each joint.
