TMS of posterior parietal cortex disrupts visual tactile multisensory integration

• Published in: The European journal of neuroscience Vol. 31; no. 10; pp. 1783 - 1790
• Main Authors: Pasalar, Siavash, Ro, Tony, Beauchamp, Michael S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2010
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Female; hand; Humans; intraparietal sulcus; IPS; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Parietal Lobe - physiology; Photic Stimulation; Physical Stimulation; Reaction Time; Reproducibility of Results; somatosensory; Touch - physiology; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; vision; Visual Perception - physiology

Functional neuroimaging studies have implicated a number of brain regions, especially the posterior parietal cortex (PPC), as being potentially important for visual–tactile multisensory integration. However, neuroimaging studies are correlational and do not prove the necessity of a region for the be...