TY - CONF T1 - Perception of Optic and Tactile Flow Both Activate V5/MT cortical complex in the human brain T2 - 10th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Y1 - 2004 A1 - N. Vanello A1 - E. Ricciardi A1 - D. Dente A1 - N. Sgambelluri A1 - E. P. Scilingo A1 - C. Gentili A1 - L. Sani A1 - V. Positano A1 - M. F. Santarelli A1 - M. Guazzelli A1 - J. V. Haxby A1 - L. Landini A1 - A. Bicchi A1 - P. Pietrini KW - Haptics AB -

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.

JF - 10th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping ER -