%0 Conference Paper %B 10th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping %D 2004 %T Perception of Optic and Tactile Flow Both Activate V5/MT cortical complex in the human brain %A N. Vanello %A E. Ricciardi %A D. Dente %A N. Sgambelluri %A E. P. Scilingo %A C. Gentili %A L. Sani %A V. Positano %A M. F. Santarelli %A M. Guazzelli %A J. V. Haxby %A L. Landini %A A. Bicchi %A P. Pietrini %K Haptics %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.

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