PMID- 23363411
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130926
LR  - 20130329
IS  - 1530-8898 (Electronic)
IS  - 0898-929X (Linking)
VI  - 25
IP  - 5
DP  - 2013 May
TI  - Spatial remapping in the audio-tactile ventriloquism effect: a TMS investigation 
      on the role of the ventral intraparietal area.
PG  - 790-801
LID - 10.1162/jocn_a_00362 [doi]
AB  - Previous studies have suggested that the putative human homologue of the ventral 
      intraparietal area (hVIP) is crucially involved in the remapping of tactile 
      information into external spatial coordinates and in the realignment of tactile 
      and visual maps. It is unclear, however, whether hVIP is critical for the 
      remapping process during audio-tactile cross-modal spatial interactions. The 
      audio-tactile ventriloquism effect, where the perceived location of a sound is 
      shifted toward the location of a synchronous but spatially disparate tactile 
      stimulus, was used to probe spatial interactions in audio-tactile processing. 
      Eighteen healthy volunteers were asked to report the perceived location of brief 
      auditory stimuli presented from three different locations (left, center, and 
      right). Auditory stimuli were presented either alone (unimodal stimuli) or 
      concurrently to a spatially discrepant tactile stimulus applied to the left or 
      right index finger (bimodal stimuli), with the hands adopting either an uncrossed 
      or a crossed posture. Single pulses of TMS were delivered over the hVIP or a 
      control site (primary somatosensory cortex, SI) 80 msec after trial onset. TMS to 
      the hVIP, compared with the control SI-TMS, interfered with the remapping of 
      touch into external space, suggesting that hVIP is crucially involved in 
      transforming spatial reference frames across audition and touch.
FAU - Renzi, Chiara
AU  - Renzi C
AD  - Brain and Behavioral Sciences Department, University of Pavia, Piazza Botta 6, 
      27100 Pavia, Italy. chiara.renzi@unipv.it
FAU - Bruns, Patrick
AU  - Bruns P
FAU - Heise, Kirstin-Friederike
AU  - Heise KF
FAU - Zimerman, Maximo
AU  - Zimerman M
FAU - Feldheim, Jan-Frederik
AU  - Feldheim JF
FAU - Hummel, Friedhelm C
AU  - Hummel FC
FAU - Roder, Brigitte
AU  - Roder B
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20130130
PL  - United States
TA  - J Cogn Neurosci
JT  - Journal of cognitive neuroscience
JID - 8910747
SB  - IM
MH  - Acoustic Stimulation
MH  - Adult
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory/*physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Functional Laterality
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Neural Pathways/physiology
MH  - Parietal Lobe/*physiology
MH  - Photic Stimulation
MH  - Psychomotor Performance/physiology
MH  - Reaction Time/physiology
MH  - Sound Localization/*physiology
MH  - Space Perception/*physiology
MH  - Touch Perception/*physiology
MH  - *Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2013/02/01 06:00
MHDA- 2013/09/27 06:00
CRDT- 2013/02/01 06:00
PHST- 2013/02/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/02/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/09/27 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1162/jocn_a_00362 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Cogn Neurosci. 2013 May;25(5):790-801. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_00362. Epub 2013 Jan 
      30.