%T Perception of optic and tactile flow both activate V5/MT cortical complex in the human brain
%C Budapest, Hungary
%P e1117
%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.
%L eprints3372
%I Elsevier
%A Nicola Vanello
%A Emiliano Ricciardi
%A Davide Dente
%A Nicola Sgambelluri
%A Enzo Pasquale Scilingo
%A Claudio Gentili
%A Lorenzo Sani
%A Vincenzo Positano
%A Maria Filomena Santarelli
%A Mario Guazzelli
%A James V. Haxby
%A Luigi Landini
%A Antonio Bicchi
%A Pietro Pietrini
%D 2004
%O Abstract published in "Neuroimage, vol. 22, suppl.1, 2004"
%B Proceedings of the 10th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping