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Pathways of tactile-visual crossmodal interaction for perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2007

Norihiro Sadato ,
Satoru Nakashita  and
Daisuke N. Saito
Norihiro Sadato
Affiliation:
Division of Cerebral Integration, Department of Cerebral Research, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan;sadato@nips.ac.jpnakashit@nips.ac.jpsdaisuke@nips.ac.jphttp://www.nips.ac.jp/fmritms/english/index.html Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) and Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), Kawaguchi, Japan.
Satoru Nakashita
Affiliation:
Division of Cerebral Integration, Department of Cerebral Research, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan;sadato@nips.ac.jpnakashit@nips.ac.jpsdaisuke@nips.ac.jphttp://www.nips.ac.jp/fmritms/english/index.html
Daisuke N. Saito
Affiliation:
Division of Cerebral Integration, Department of Cerebral Research, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan;sadato@nips.ac.jpnakashit@nips.ac.jpsdaisuke@nips.ac.jphttp://www.nips.ac.jp/fmritms/english/index.html Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) and Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), Kawaguchi, Japan.
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Abstract

There is a task-specificity in the visual-tactile interaction for perception: The polymodal posterior parietal cortex is related to the comparison of the shapes coded by different sensory modalities, whereas the lateral occipital complex is the part of the network for multimodal shape identification. These interactions may be mediated by some latent pathways potentiated by sensory deprivation or learning.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 218 - 219
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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