How the Brain can Hear Shapes
May 25, 2007
The work of Amir Amedi, William Stern, and colleagues at the Center is highlighted in a recent New Scientist article, which reports on a recent publication in Nature Neuroscience (Nature Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1038/nn1912). Using fMRI and a device called The vOICe, which converts visual details into sound, the study demonstrates that the brain area LOtv is driven by the presence of shape, but it doesn’t care whether the input is visual, tactile or auditory. This is consistent with the notion of a metamodal brain organization put forward by Pascual-Leone and Hamilton some years ago.