학술논문
Neurophysiological investigation of idiopathic acquired auditory-visual synesthesia.
Document Type
Article
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Subject
*NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
*SYNESTHESIA
*AUDITORY perception
*ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY
*MAGNETIC resonance imaging of the brain
*VISUAL learning
*AUDITORY evoked response
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ISSN
1355-4794
Abstract
We present a case of acquired auditory-visual synesthesia and its neurophysiological investigation in a healthy 42-year-old woman. She started experiencing persistent positive and intermittent negative visual phenomena at age 37 followed by auditory-visual synesthesia. Her neurophysiological investigation included video-EEG, fMRI, and MEG. Auditory stimuli (700 Hz, 50 ms duration, 0.5 s ISI) were presented binaurally at 60 db above the hearing threshold in a dark room. The patient had bilateral symmetrical auditory-evoked neuromagnetic responses followed by an occipital-evoked field 16.3 ms later. The activation of occipital cortex following auditory stimuli may represent recruitment of existing cross-modal sensory pathways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]