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Shape conveyed by visual-to-auditory sensory substitution activates the lateral occipital complex
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.
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“Amedi et al. (2007) demonstrated that a congenitally blind and a late-blind subject could identify objects by recognizing their shape from visual-to-auditory encodings provided by the vOICe.”
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“Moreover, the lateral-occipital tactile visual area (LOtv) was activated only for participants who received extensive training, but not for those who simply learned associations between objects and soundscapes.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Amedi, A., Stern, W. M., Camprodon, J. A., Bermpohl, F., Merabet, L., Rotman, S., Hemond, C., Meijer, P., & Pascual-Leone, A.
- Affiliations
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- NXP (Netherlands) (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Amedi, Amir
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2007-05-21
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 687-689
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- OpenAlex
- W2010002462
- Cited by
- 451
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 9.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- IRIS (submittedVersion)
- SERVAL (Université de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Eye Institute (R21-EY0116168, R01EY012091)
- National Center for Research Resources (K24RR018875)
- 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 › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- sensory substitution, lateral occipital complex, shape perception, object recognition, blind people, soundscape, cross-modal perception
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Adult, Auditory Perception, Blindness, Brain Mapping, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Occipital Lobe, Oxygen, Stereognosis, Touch, Recognition, Psychology
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