Medical Where The Brain Combines What's Heard And Felt

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The discussion centers on recent research from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, revealing that the brain integrates auditory and tactile information in the auditory cortex, challenging previous assumptions about the timing of this integration. The study utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate that this process occurs earlier than traditionally thought. The findings suggest a complex interplay between different sensory modalities, as exemplified by the experience of watching a ventriloquist, where language and visual cues are combined. There is curiosity about whether similar studies will be conducted to explore visual integration.
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Where The Brain Combines What's Heard And Felt
When sense perceptions from various sense organs are processed in the brain, this information is integrated - for example, when we are watching a ventriloquist, our brain combines information pertaining to both language and vision. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany have showed that the integration of auditory and touch information takes place in the 'hearing centre' of the brain - the auditory cortex - and thus at an earlier point than has traditionally been assumed (Neuron, October 20, 2005).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051024083618.htm
 
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cool, i wonder if they'll show some for visual then.
 
That's a very cool article, Cosmina.
 

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