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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 22, 2005, 25(25):5884-5893; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0896-05.2005

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Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive
Perceptual Fusion and Stimulus Coincidence in the Cross-Modal Integration of Speech

Lee M. Miller¹ and Mark D'Esposito²

¹Section of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior and Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, California 95616, and ²Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

Human speech perception is profoundly influenced by vision. Watching a speaker's mouth movements significantly improves comprehension, both for normal listeners in noisy environments and especially for the hearing impaired. A number of brain regions have been implicated in audiovisual speech tasks, but little evidence distinguishes them functionally. In an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we differentiate neural systems that evaluate cross-modal coincidence of the physical stimuli from those that mediate perceptual binding. Regions consistently involved in perceptual fusion per se included Heschl's gyrus, superior temporal sulcus, middle intraparietal sulcus, and inferior frontal gyrus. Successful fusion elicited activity biased toward the left hemisphere, although failed cross-modal binding recruited regions in both hemispheres. A broad network of other areas, including the superior colliculus, anterior insula, and anterior intraparietal sulcus, were more involved with evaluating the spatiotemporal correspondence of speech stimuli, regardless of a subject's perception. All of these showed greater activity to temporally offset stimuli than to audiovisually synchronous stimuli. Our results demonstrate how elements of the cross-modal speech integration network differ in their sensitivity to physical reality versus perceptual experience.

Key words: cross modal; audiovisual; multisensory; speech; binding; fMRI

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Received Dec 9, 2004; revised April 18, 2005; accepted May 16, 2005.

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