Beauchamp Michael S, Argall Brenna D, Bodurka Jerzy, Duyn Jeff H, Martin Alex
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Nat Neurosci. 2004 Nov;7(11):1190-2. doi: 10.1038/nn1333. Epub 2004 Oct 10.
Although early sensory cortex is organized along dimensions encoded by receptor organs, little is known about the organization of higher areas in which different modalities are integrated. We investigated multisensory integration in human superior temporal sulcus using recent advances in parallel imaging to perform functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at very high resolution. These studies suggest a functional architecture in which information from different modalities is brought into close proximity via a patchy distribution of inputs, followed by integration in the intervening cortex.
尽管早期感觉皮层是按照由感受器器官编码的维度组织起来的，但对于整合了不同感觉模态的高级脑区的组织方式却知之甚少。我们利用并行成像技术的最新进展，以非常高的分辨率进行功能磁共振成像（fMRI），研究了人类颞上沟中的多感觉整合。这些研究表明了一种功能架构，即来自不同感觉模态的信息通过斑片状分布的输入被带到彼此附近，随后在其间的皮层中进行整合。
