A modality-independent proto-organization of human multisensory areas.

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"This work has been supported by a PRIN grant (2017_55TKFE) by the Italian Ministry of University and Research to P.P. Additionally, F.S. was supported by the Frontier Proposal Fellowship (FPF program, 2019) granted by IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca; M.D. was supported by the ERC Consolidator Grant LIGHTUP (project #772953). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. We thank the Unione Italiana Ciechi e Ipovedenti (The Italian Union of the Blind and Partially Sighted) and the Ente Nazionale Sordi Onlus (The Italian Union of the Deaf) for their support. A preliminary version of this manuscript has undergone an internal review by L. Merabet. We acknowledge V. Cardin and O. Collignon for insightful discussions on the project."