| Title | Perception of Optic and Tactile Flow Both Activate V5/MT cortical complex in the human brain |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2004 |
| Conference Name | 10th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping |
| Publication Language | eng |
| Authors | Vanello, N, Ricciardi, E, Dente, D, Sgambelluri, N, Scilingo, EP, Gentili, C, Sani, L, Positano, V, Santarelli, MF, Guazzelli, M, Haxby, JV, Landini, L, Bicchi, A, Pietrini, P |
| Keywords | Haptics |
| Abstract | 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. |