Modality-specific reactive and predictive responses in the human superior colliculus
Chen et al. use 7-Tesla fMRI to show that the human superior colliculus has modality-specific, depth-dependent activity prior to visual or somatosensory events, resembling its response to actual stimulation.
Authors
- Jordan E. Theriault (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4680-0172)
- Lawrence L. Wald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8278-6307)
- Tor Dessart Wager (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1936-5574)
- Ajay B. Satpute (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0227-0816)
- Ji‐Kyung Choi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1842-8825)
- Philip A. Kragel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9463-6381)
- Paul W. Savoca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6954-8336)
- Lisa Feldman Barrett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4478-2051)
- Maya Barton-Zuckerman
- Jiahe Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7520-074X)
- Danlei Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4118-4144)
- Marta Bianciardi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9606-6853)
- Karen S. Quigley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8844-990X)
- Zoe Kross (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6585-1928)
Institutions
- Dartmouth College (US)
- Northeastern University (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Emory University (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Harvard University Press (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2026-10-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02480-0
- Primary Topic
- Multisensory perception and integration
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00