Fig. 2.

Passive touch on the body activates the visual object selective area in LOC. A. Statistical parametric map for whole-body passive touch. B. Statistical parametric map for the visual object localizer shows bilateral LO activation. C. Overlap of the activations in response to passive touch (pink), visual-object (orange) and auditory control (green) stimuli. The results show that tactile but not auditory activated areas overlap bilaterally with the dorsal part of visual object selectivity in LOC. This tactile activated area overlapped the previously reported (Amedi et al., 2001) tactile object recognition area, the LOtv (denoted by an asterisk).