Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Topographic maps representing haptic numerosity reveals distinct sensory representations in supramodal networks

  • Shir Hofstetter,
  • Yuxuan Cai,
  • Ben M. Harvey,
  • Serge O. Dumoulin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20567-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Topographically organized tuned responses to haptic numerosity were found in the human brain. The responses to visual or haptic numerosity shared a similar large-scale cortical network, yet the maps of the two modalities only partially overlapped, suggesting distinct underlying neural populations.