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The multisensory function of the human primary visual cortex
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It has been nearly 10 years since Ghazanfar and Schroeder (2006) proposed that the neocortex is essentially multisensory in nature. However, it is only recently that sufficient and hard evidence that supports this proposal has accrued. We review evidence that activity within the human primary visual cortex plays an active role in multisensory processes and directly impacts behavioural outcome. This evidence emerges from a full pallet of human brain imaging and brain mapping methods with which multisensory processes are quantitatively assessed by taking advantage of particular strengths of each technique as well as advances in signal analyses. Several general conclusions about multisensory processes in primary visual cortex of humans are supported relatively solidly. First, haemodynamic methods (fMRI/PET) show that there is both convergence and integration occurring within primary visual cortex. Second, primary visual cortex is involved in multisensory processes during early post-stimulus stages (as revealed by EEG/ERP/ERFs as well as TMS). Third, multisensory effects in primary visual cortex directly impact behaviour and perception, as revealed by correlational (EEG/ERPs/ERFs) as well as more causal measures (TMS/tACS). While the provocative claim of Ghazanfar and Schroeder (2006) that the whole of neocortex is multisensory in function has yet to be demonstrated, this can now be considered established in the case of the human primary visual cortex.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Murray, M. M., Thelen, A., Thut, G., Romei, V., Martuzzi, R., & Matusz, P. J.
- Affiliations
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
- University of Glasgow (GB)
- University of Essex (GB)
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Murray, Micah M.
- Venue
- Neuropsychologia
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-03
- Volume
- 83
- Pages
- 161-169
- ISSN
- 0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1423823652
- Cited by
- 219
- References
- 143
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 38 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 7
- FWCI
- 2.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/legal/tdmrep-license (tdm)
- www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/ (am, 361 d)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-017 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-037 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-012 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-029 (stm-asf)
- doi.org/10.15223/policy-004 (stm-asf)
- Locations
- Neuropsychologia (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (acceptedVersion)
- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
- IRIS (submittedVersion)
- Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
- ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (submittedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (320030-149982)
- Wellcome Trust (098434)
- National Centre of Competence in Research Robotics (51AU40-125759)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Keywords
- primary visual cortex, multisensory integration, multisensory convergence, visual perception, transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial alternating current stimulation, event-related potentials, functional MRI, PET, EEG, brain mapping
- MeSH terms
- Afferent Pathways, Brain Mapping, Humans, Perception, Physical Stimulation, Visual Cortex, Neuroimaging
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