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Auditory attention activates peripheral visual cortex

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Cate, Anthony D., Herron, Timothy J., Yund, E. William, Stecker, G. Christopher, Rinne, Teemu, Kang, Xiaojian, Petkov, Christopher I., Disbrow, Elizabeth A. +1 more·2009·PLoS ONE

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BACKGROUND: Recent neuroimaging studies have revealed that putatively unimodal regions of visual cortex can be activated during auditory tasks in sighted as well as in blind subjects. However, the task determinants and functional significance of auditory occipital activations (AOAs) remains unclear. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We examined AOAs in an intermodal selective attention task to distinguish whether they were stimulus-bound or recruited by higher-level cognitive operations associated with auditory attention. Cortical surface mapping showed that auditory occipital activations were localized to retinotopic visual cortex subserving the far peripheral visual field. AOAs depended strictly on the sustained engagement of auditory attention and were enhanced in more difficult listening conditions. In contrast, unattended sounds produced no AOAs regardless of their intensity, spatial location, or frequency. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Auditory attention, but not passive exposure to sounds, routinely activated peripheral regions of visual cortex when subjects attended to sound sources outside the visual field. Functional connections between auditory cortex and visual cortex subserving the peripheral visual field appear to underlie the generation of AOAs, which may reflect the priming of visual regions to process soon-to-appear objects associated with unseen sound sources.

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  • There is evidence for multisensory integration on the subcortical level and for direct anatomical connections between early auditory and early visual areas, mostly reaching peripheral regions.

    “Apart from the route via multisensory areas, there is evidence for multisensory integration on the subcortical level [27] and for direct anatomical connections between early auditory and early visual areas [12, 28, 29], mostly reaching peripheral regions [12–14], consistent with both our eccentricity and searchlight results.”

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  1. [79]Woods DL Stecker GC Rinne T Herron TJ Cate AD 2009 Functional Maps of Human Auditory Cortex: Effects of Acoustic Features and Attention”. Submitted PMC2664477 19365552

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Cate, A. D., Herron, T. J., Yund, E. W., Stecker, G. C., Rinne, T., Kang, X., Petkov, C. I., Disbrow, E. A., & Woods, D. L.
Affiliations
  • VA Northern California Health Care System (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • University of Helsinki (FI)
  • Newcastle University (GB)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
Corresponding author
Cate, Anthony D.
Venue
PLoS ONE
Published
2009-02-27
Volume
4
Issue
2
Pages
e4645
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1987653094
Cited by
111
References
103
Citations by year
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FWCI
10.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, public-domain)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, public-domain)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity)
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
auditory attention, cross-modal attention, retinotopic visual cortex, sound localization, visual priming, auditory cortex
MeSH terms
Adult, Attention, Female, Hearing, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Visual Cortex

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