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Whole brain mapping of visual and tactile convergence in the macaque monkey

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The proposal that sensory processing is achieved in segregated anatomical pathways has been profoundly revisited following the description of cross-modal anatomical connections both at higher and at lower processing levels. However, an understanding of the cortical extent of these long range cross-modal functional influences has been missing. Here, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to map, in the non-human primate brain, the cortical regions which are activated by both visual and tactile stimulations. We describe an unprecedented pattern of functional visuo-tactile convergence, encompassing both low-level visual and somatosensory areas and multiple higher-order associative areas. We also show that the profile of this convergence depends on the physical properties of the mapping stimuli, indicating that visuo-tactile convergence is most probably even more prevailing than what we actually describe. Overall, these observations substantiate the view that the brain is massively multisensory.
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hal-04260357 , version 1 (26-10-2023)

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Olivier Guipponi, Justine Cléry, Soline Odouard, Claire Wardak, Suliann Ben Hamed. Whole brain mapping of visual and tactile convergence in the macaque monkey. NeuroImage, 2015, 117, pp.93 - 102. ⟨10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.022⟩. ⟨hal-04260357⟩
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