caa a22 4500 445353686 CHVBK 20180317142852.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00221-011-2733-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00221-011-2733-9 When flavor guides motor control: an effector independence study [Elektronische Daten] [Valentina Parma, Roberto Roverato, Deborah Ghirardello, Maria Bulgheroni, Roberto Tirindelli, Umberto Castiello] Research on multisensory integration during natural tasks has revealed how chemical senses contribute to plan and control movements. An aspect which has yet to be investigated regards whether the motor representations evoked by chemosensory stimuli, once established for a particular movement, can be used to control different effectors. Here, we investigate this issue by asking participants to drink a sip of flavored solution, grasp with the hand a visual target, and then bring it to the mouth, miming the action of biting. Results show that hand and lip apertures were scaled according to the size of the object evoked by the flavor. Maximum hand and lip apertures were greater when the action toward a small visual target (e.g., strawberry) was preceded by a sip of a "large” (e.g., orange) than a "small” (e.g., almond) flavor solution. Conversely, maximum hand and lip apertures were smaller when the action toward a large visual target (e.g., apple) was preceded by the presentation of a "small” (e.g., strawberry) rather than a "large” flavor solution. These findings support previous evidence on the presence of a unique motor plan underlying the act of grasping with-the-hand and with-the-mouth, extending the knowledge of chemosensorimotor transformations to motor equivalence. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Chemical senses nationallicence Cross-modal interactions nationallicence Hand kinematics nationallicence Mouth kinematics nationallicence Parma Valentina Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy aut Roverato Roberto Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy aut Ghirardello Deborah Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy aut Bulgheroni Maria Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy aut Tirindelli Roberto Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Parma, Italy aut Castiello Umberto Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy aut Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 212/3(2011-07-01), 339-346 0014-4819 212:3<339 2011 212 221 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2733-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2733-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Parma Valentina Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Roverato Roberto Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ghirardello Deborah Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bulgheroni Maria Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tirindelli Roberto Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Parma, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Castiello Umberto Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia, 8, 35131, Padova, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 212/3(2011-07-01), 339-346 0014-4819 212:3<339 2011 212 221 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer