%0 Conference Paper
%A Vanello, Nicola
%A Ricciardi, Emiliano
%A Dente, Davide
%A Sgambelluri, Nicola
%A Scilingo, Enzo Pasquale
%A Gentili, Claudio
%A Sani, Lorenzo
%A Positano, Vincenzo
%A Santarelli, Maria Filomena
%A Guazzelli, Mario
%A Haxby, James V.
%A Landini, Luigi
%A Bicchi, Antonio
%A Pietrini, Pietro
%B 10th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (HBM2004)
%C Budapest, Hungary
%D 2004
%F eprints:3372
%I Elsevier
%P e1117
%T Perception of optic and tactile flow both activate V5/MT cortical complex in the human brain
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3372/
%X V5/MT complex responds selectively to perception of optic flow (Morrone et al., Nature Neurosci , 2001). Since similarities exist between visual and tactile perception, we hypothesized that tactile flow might also rely on V5/MT response. We and others have shown recently that visual extrastriate cortical areas respond both during visual and tactile recognition of objects, indicating that these regions are organized in a supramodal fashion. In this study, we measured neural response evoked during visual and tactile perception of coherently moving dot patterns to test the hypothesis that V5/MT may be supramodally organized and may respond also to tactile stimulation.
%Z Abstract published in "Neuroimage, vol. 22, suppl.1, 2004"