Where The Brain Combines What's Heard And Felt

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Research from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics reveals that the brain integrates auditory and tactile information in the auditory cortex, challenging previous assumptions about sensory processing. This integration occurs earlier than previously thought, as demonstrated through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. The findings were published in the Neuron journal on October 20, 2005, highlighting the brain's ability to combine language and visual cues, such as in ventriloquism.

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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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