Auditory motion perception activates visual motion areas in early blind subjects
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We have previously shown that some visual motion areas can be specifically recruited by auditory motion processing in blindfolded sighted subjects [Poirier, C., Collignon, O., De Volder, A.G., Renier, L., Vanlierde, A., Tranduy, D., Scheiber, C., 2005. Specific activation of V5 brain area by auditory motion processing: an fMRI study. Brain Res. Cogn. Brain Res. 25, 650-658]. The present fMRI study investigated whether auditory motion processing may recruit the same brain areas in early blind subjects. The task consisted of simultaneously determining both the nature of a sound stimulus (pure tone or complex sound) and the presence or absence of its movement. When a movement was present, blind subjects had to identify its direction. Auditory motion processing, as compared to static sound processing, activated the brain network of auditory and visual motion processing classically observed in sighted subjects. Accordingly, brain areas previously considered as specific to visual motion processing could be specifically recruited in blind people by motion stimuli presented through the auditory modality. This indicates that the occipital cortex of blind people could be organized in a modular way, as in sighted people. The similarity of these results with those we previously observed in sighted subjects suggests that occipital recruitment in blind people could be mediated by the same anatomical connections as in sighted subjects.
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- Authors
- Poirier, C., Collignon, O., Scheiber, C., Renier, L., Vanlierde, A., Tranduy, D., Veraart, C., & De Volder, A. G.
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- 2006-05
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- 31
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- 279-285
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- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
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- Funders
- Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- auditory motion perception, early blindness, V5, occipital cortex, auditory-visual interaction, brain modularity, sound localization
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Blindness, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Motion Perception, Nerve Net, Occipital Lobe, Orientation, Pitch Perception, Recruitment, Neurophysiological, Sound Localization, Visual Perception, Imaging, Three-Dimensional
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