Area 2 of primary somatosensory cortex encodes kinematics of the whole arm

Author:

Chowdhury Raeed H12ORCID,Glaser Joshua I345ORCID,Miller Lee E1678ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States

2. Systems Neuroscience Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States

3. Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States

4. Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, United States

5. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, United States

6. Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States

7. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States

8. Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, United States

Abstract

Proprioception, the sense of body position, movement, and associated forces, remains poorly understood, despite its critical role in movement. Most studies of area 2, a proprioceptive area of somatosensory cortex, have simply compared neurons’ activities to the movement of the hand through space. Using motion tracking, we sought to elaborate this relationship by characterizing how area 2 activity relates to whole arm movements. We found that a whole-arm model, unlike classic models, successfully predicted how features of neural activity changed as monkeys reached to targets in two workspaces. However, when we then evaluated this whole-arm model across active and passive movements, we found that many neurons did not consistently represent the whole arm over both conditions. These results suggest that 1) neural activity in area 2 includes representation of the whole arm during reaching and 2) many of these neurons represented limb state differently during active and passive movements.

Funder

National Science Foundation

National Institutes of Health

Publisher

eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd

Subject

General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience

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