@article{4f385269af854cbbb59021873ed09643,
title = "Shared Representation of Visual and Auditory Motion Directions in the Human Middle-Temporal Cortex",
abstract = "The human occipito-temporal region hMT+/V5 is well known for processing visual motion direction. Here, we demonstrate that hMT+/V5 also represents the direction of auditory motion in a format partially aligned with the one used to code visual motion. We show that auditory and visual motion directions can be reliably decoded in individually localized hMT+/V5 and that motion directions in one modality can be predicted from the activity patterns elicited by the other modality. Despite shared motion-direction information across the senses, vision and audition, however, overall produce opposite voxel-wise responses in hMT+/V5. Our results reveal a multifaced representation of multisensory motion signals in hMT+/V5 and have broader implications for our understanding of how we consider the division of sensory labor between brain regions dedicated to a specific perceptual function.",
keywords = "auditory, cross-modal, decoding, fMRI, hMT/V5, motion, multimodal, MVPA, RSA, visual",
author = "Mohamed Rezk and Stephanie Cattoir and Ceren Battal and Valeria Occelli and Stefania Mattioni and Olivier Collignon",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to express our gratitude to Roberto Bottini who helped with the data acquisition, Jorge Jovicich for helping setting up the fMRI acquisition parameters, Pietro Chiesa for continuing support with the auditory hardware, and Barbara K. Marebwa for her discussion and feedback on the manuscript. This work was supported by a European Research Council starting grant ( MADVIS grant # 337573 ) attributed to O.C. and by the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 701250 awarded to V.O. M.R. is a PhD student and O.C. a research associate at the FRS-FNRS of Belgium. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Elsevier Inc.",
year = "2020",
month = jun,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.039",
language = "English",
volume = "30",
pages = "2289--2299.e8",
journal = "Current Biology",
issn = "0960-9822",
publisher = "Cell Press",
number = "12",
}