Université de Fribourg

Contributions of pitch and bandwidth to sound-induced enhancement of visual cortex excitability in humans

Spierer, Lucas ; Manuel, Aurelie L. ; Bueti, Domenica ; Murray, Micah M.

In: Cortex, 2014, vol. 49, no. 10, p. 2728–2734

Multisensory interactions have been documented within low-level, even primary, cortices and at early post-stimulus latencies. These effects are in turn linked to behavioral and perceptual modulations. In humans, visual cortex excitability, as measured by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) induced phosphenes, can be reliably enhanced by the co-presentation of sounds. This enhancement occurs...