Integration of auditory and visual communication information in the primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

T Sugihara, MD Diltz, BB Averbeck… - Journal of …, 2006 - Soc Neuroscience
T Sugihara, MD Diltz, BB Averbeck, LM Romanski
Journal of Neuroscience, 2006Soc Neuroscience
The integration of auditory and visual stimuli is crucial for recognizing objects,
communicating effectively, and navigating through our complex world. Although the frontal
lobes are involved in memory, communication, and language, there has been no evidence
that the integration of communication information occurs at the single-cell level in the frontal
lobes. Here, we show that neurons in the macaque ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC)
integrate audiovisual communication stimuli. The multisensory interactions included both …
The integration of auditory and visual stimuli is crucial for recognizing objects, communicating effectively, and navigating through our complex world. Although the frontal lobes are involved in memory, communication, and language, there has been no evidence that the integration of communication information occurs at the single-cell level in the frontal lobes. Here, we show that neurons in the macaque ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) integrate audiovisual communication stimuli. The multisensory interactions included both enhancement and suppression of a predominantly auditory or a predominantly visual response, although multisensory suppression was the more common mode of response. The multisensory neurons were distributed across the VLPFC and within previously identified unimodal auditory and visual regions (; ). Thus, our study demonstrates, for the first time, that single prefrontal neurons integrate communication information from the auditory and visual domains, suggesting that these neurons are an important node in the cortical network responsible for communication.
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