Arm cooling selectively impacts sensorimotor control

Scotto, Cecile; Petitcollin, Florian; Dupuy, Olivier; Casiez, Géry; Dugué, Benoit; Toussaint, Lucette

Document type :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1152/jn.00196.2023

PMID :

38381536

Title :

Arm cooling selectively impacts sensorimotor control

Author(s) :

Scotto, Cecile [Auteur]
Centre de recherches sur la cognition et l'apprentissage [UMR 7295] [CeRCA [Poitiers, Tours]]
Petitcollin, Florian [Auteur]
Centre de recherches sur la cognition et l'apprentissage [UMR 7295] [CeRCA [Poitiers, Tours]]
Dupuy, Olivier [Auteur]
Laboratoire Mobilité, Vieillissement, Exercice [MOVE [Poitiers]]
École de kinésiologie et des sciences de l'activité physique [Université de Montréal] [EKSAP [UdeM]]
Casiez, Géry [Auteur]

Université de Lille
Technology and knowledge for interaction [LOKI]
Institut universitaire de France [IUF]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Dugué, Benoit [Auteur]
Laboratoire Mobilité, Vieillissement, Exercice [MOVE [Poitiers]]
Toussaint, Lucette [Auteur]
Centre de recherches sur la cognition et l'apprentissage [UMR 7295] [CeRCA [Poitiers, Tours]]

Journal title :

Journal of Neurophysiology

Pages :

607-618

Publisher :

American Physiological Society

Publication date :

2024-04-01

ISSN :

0022-3077

English keyword(s) :

Cryotherapy
Fitts’s task
Implicit motor imagery
Sensorimotor control

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives/Psychologie

English abstract : [en]

The benefits of cold have long been recognized in sport and medicine. However, it also brings costs, which have more rarely been investigated, notably in terms of sensorimotor control. We hypothesized that, in addition to ...
Show more >The benefits of cold have long been recognized in sport and medicine. However, it also brings costs, which have more rarely been investigated, notably in terms of sensorimotor control. We hypothesized that, in addition to peripheral effects, cold slows down the processing of proprioceptive cues, which has an impact on both feedback and feedforward control. We therefore compared the performances of participants whose right arm had been immersed in either cold water (arm temperature: 14°C) or lukewarm water (arm temperature: 34°C). In experiment 1, we administered a Fitts’s pointing task and performed a kinematic analysis to determine whether sensorimotor control processes were affected by the cold. Results revealed 1) modifications in late kinematic parameters, suggesting changes in the use of proprioceptive feedback, and 2) modifications in early kinematic parameters, suggesting changes in action representations and/or feedforward processes. To explore our hypothesis further, we ran a second experiment in which no physical movement was involved, and thus no peripheral effects. Participants were administrated a hand laterality task, known to involve implicit motor imagery and assess the internal representation of the hand. They were shown left- and right-hand images randomly displayed in different orientations in the picture plane and had to identify as quickly and as accurately as possible whether each image was of the left hand or the right hand. Results revealed slower responses and more errors when participants had to mentally rotate the cooled hand in the extreme orientation of 160°, further suggesting the impact of cold on action representations.<b>New & Noteworthy</b>We investigated how arm cooling modulates sensorimotor representations and sensorimotor control. Arm cooling induced changes in early kinematic parameters of pointing, suggesting an impact on feedforward processes or hand representation. Arm cooling induced changes in late kinematic parameters of pointing, suggesting an impact on feedback processes. Arm cooling also affected performance on a hand laterality task, suggesting that action representations were modified.Show less >

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Anglais

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