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Upper left: Ultra-high field (7 Tesla) MRI scanner at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences. Upper right: Visual stimuli used in the fMRI experiment. Moving gratings were presented to either the left or right visual field. Lower left: Location of the primary auditory cortex in the human brain. Lower right: Brain activity in the contralateral and ipsilateral primary auditory cortex during visual stimulation. The horizontal axis represents time, and the vertical axis represents the percent signal change in brain activity. The onset of visual stimulation is at 0 seconds, with the gray shaded area indicating the stimulus duration. The red line represents the mean across all participants, and the magenta shaded area represents ±1 standard error (SE) from the mean. Comparable levels of brain activity suppression were observed in both hemispheres.

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Hiromasa Takemura

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