Ceren Battal

Aligned representation of visual and tactile motion directions in hMT+/V5 and fronto- parietal regions

The paper shows that hMT+/V5 and fronto-parietal regions encode visual and tactile motion directions using a common external frame of reference, independent of body posture.

Representation of emotional expressions across the face and voice brain networks

The paper investigates how emotional expressions are represented in brain networks for facial and vocal signals, finding shared neural codes and multisensory integration across regions.

How learning to read visual Braille co-opts the reading brain

This study investigates how the brain processes visual Braille by comparing expert and naive readers, finding that linguistic content, not visual features, drives orthographic decoding in an extended reading network.

Impact of blindness onset on the representation of sound categories in occipital and temporal cortices

This study examines how blindness onset affects sound category representation in occipital and temporal cortices, finding enhanced and stable coding in occipital regions and a reverse pattern in temporal regions in blind individuals.

Structural and functional network-level reorganization in the coding of auditory motion directions and sound source locations in the absence of vision

The paper investigates how early blindness affects brain networks involved in spatial hearing, finding enhanced motion direction coding in hMT+/V5 and reduced coding in hPT in blind individuals.

Direct structural connections between auditory and visual motion selective regions in humans

This study identifies direct white matter connections between auditory and visual motion-selective brain regions in humans, proposing a new anatomical pathway called the middle occipito-temporal track.

Categorical representation from sound and sight in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex of sighted and blind

The paper investigates whether vision is necessary for categorical organization in the VOTC by comparing fMRI responses to sound categories in sighted and blind individuals.

Representation of auditory motion directions and sound source locations in the human planum temporale

This study uses fMRI to show that the human planum temporale encodes auditory motion directions and sound source locations with partially shared but distinct neural patterns.