| Literature DB >> 17515898 |
Amir Amedi1, William M Stern, Joan A Camprodon, Felix Bermpohl, Lotfi Merabet, Stephen Rotman, Christopher Hemond, Peter Meijer, Alvaro Pascual-Leone.
Abstract
The lateral-occipital tactile-visual area (LOtv) is activated when objects are recognized by vision or touch. We report here that the LOtv is also activated in sighted and blind humans who recognize objects by extracting shape information from visual-to-auditory sensory substitution soundscapes. Recognizing objects by their typical sounds or learning to associate specific soundscapes with specific objects do not activate this region. This suggests that LOtv is driven by the presence of shape information.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17515898 DOI： 10.1038/nn1912
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Neurosci ISSN： 1097-6256 Impact factor: 24.884