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Neuro Forum

Touching Sounds: Thalamocortical Plasticity and the Neural Basis of Multisensory Integration

Institute of Medical Psychology, Frankfurt Medical School, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

ABSTRACT

To date, noninvasive neuroimaging research on multisensory perception has focused on cortical activations. In a series of elegant functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments, Beauchamp and Ro recently investigated altered cortical activations associated with acquired sound–touch synesthesia resulting from a thalamic lesion. Their findings highlight the important role of intact thalamocortical projections for preventing illusory crossmodal perception and for underlying reliable multisensory integration.