Mapping multisensory parietal face and body areas in humans
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Detection and avoidance of impending obstacles is crucial to preventing head and body injuries in daily life. To safely avoid obstacles, locations of objects approaching the body surface are usually detected via the visual system and then used by the motor system to guide defensive movements. Mediating between visual input and motor output, the posterior parietal cortex plays an important role in integrating multisensory information in peripersonal space. We used functional MRI to map parietal areas that see and feel multisensory stimuli near or on the face and body. Tactile experiments using full-body air-puff stimulation suits revealed somatotopic areas of the face and multiple body parts forming a higher-level homunculus in the superior posterior parietal cortex. Visual experiments using wide-field looming stimuli revealed retinotopic maps that overlap with the parietal face and body areas in the postcentral sulcus at the most anterior border of the dorsal visual pathway. Starting at the parietal face area and moving medially and posteriorly into the lower-body areas, the median of visual polar-angle representations in these somatotopic areas gradually shifts from near the horizontal meridian into the lower visual field. These results suggest the parietal face and body areas fuse multisensory information in peripersonal space to guard an individual from head to toe.
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Surface-based fMRI described a detailed map of human face that integrates visual and tactile inputs.
“Using surface-based fMRI, researchers have described a detailed map of the human face that integrates visual and tactile inputs (Sereno and Huang 2006; Huang et al. 2012).”
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- Authors
- Huang, R.-S., Chen, C.-F., Tran, A. T., Holstein, K. L., & Sereno, M. I.
- Affiliations
- Institute for Neural Computation,
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and
- University of California San Diego (US)
- University of London (GB)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2012-10-15
- Volume
- 109
- Issue
- 44
- Pages
- 18114-18119
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC3497759
- OpenAlex
- W2062140410
- Cited by
- 131
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 13 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 6
- FWCI
- 10.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH081990)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Keywords
- posterior parietal cortex, peripersonal space, multisensory integration, somatotopic mapping, retinotopic mapping, looming stimuli, air-puff stimulation, postcentral sulcus, defensive movements, obstacle avoidance, homunculus
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Face, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Touch, Vision, Ocular
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