Shape conveyed by visual-to-auditory sensory substitution activates the lateral occipital complex

By Amir Amedi, William M. Stern, J. Camprodon, Felix Bermpohl, Lotfi B. Merabet, Stephen Rotman, Christopher C. Hemond, Peter B. L. Meijer, Alvaro Pascual-Leone. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The brain as a flexible task machine: implications for visual rehabilitation using noninvasive vs. invasive approaches. (2012, methodology): “Adapted from Amedi et al. 2007 Data adapted from Amedi et al. 2010 Data adapted from Amedi et al. 2001 RH Y = –59 Y = –58 Y = –57 Y = –71 Z = –7 Z = –9 Z = 9 LH LH RH RH”
Flexibility and Stability in Sensory Processing Revealed Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution (2014, methodology): “In this case, one may expect to find positive auditory responses in visual areas such as LOC (Amedi et al. 2007), which was not seen here.”
Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness (2012, background): “In fact, recent neuroimaging studies (Amedi et al., 2007; Ptito, Moesgaard, Gjedde, & Kupers, 2005) demonstrate activity in occipital cortex newly emerging in response to sensory-substituted stimuli.”
How the Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Influence the Development of Brain Architecture (2010, positive): “, 1989; Pascual-Leone, Amedi, Fregni, & Merabet, 2005), but that plasticity of other sensory systems may allow a blind person to demonstrate normal—and possibly enhanced—spatial awareness (Amedi et al., 2007).”
How concepts are encoded in the human brain: A modality independent, category-based cortical organization of semantic knowledge (2016, result): “The similarity between the auditory space in the blind group and the pictorial space in sighted subjects is in linewith results from other studies that identified LO ability to process ‘visual’ features of object form across visual, auditory and tactile tasks (Amedi et al., 2007; Kim and Zatorre, 20”
Multisensory visual–tactile object related network in humans: insights gained using a novel crossmodal adaptation approach (2009, methodology): “between arbitrary sounds and names (Amedi et al. 2007).”
Cortical activity during tactile exploration of objects in blind and sighted humans (2010, methodology): “…for multiple comparisons using a cluster-size threshold adjustment, based on a Monte Carlo simulation approach extended to 3D data sets using the threshold size plug-in BrainVoyager QX ((Forman et al., 1995); for more details on implementation see (Amedi et al., 2005; Amedi et al., 2007)).”
The origins of metamodality in visual object area LO: Bodily topographical biases and increased functional connectivity to S1 (2016, positive): “…and that haptic object recognition by touch or using visual-to-auditory substitution recruits the object related lateral occipital complex (LOC, Amedi et al., 2007, 2010), leading to the suggestion that this area is dedicated to deciphering the 3D shape of objects regardless of sensory…”