01538nas a2200265 4500008004100000245009700041210006900138520068700207653001200894100001500906700001700921700001300938700001900951700002000970700001600990700001201006700001601018700002201034700001701056700001501073700001501088700001501103700001601118856013801134 2004 eng d00aPerception of Optic and Tactile Flow Both Activate V5/MT cortical complex in the human brain0 aPerception of Optic and Tactile Flow Both Activate V5MT cortical3 a

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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