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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Volume 2010, Article ID 304941, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2010/304941 Research Article Crossmodal Links between Vision and Touch in Spatial Attention: A Computational Modelling Study Elisa Magosso,1 Andrea Serino,2, 3 Giuseppe di Pellegrino,2, 3 and Mauro Ursino1 1 Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, 47023 Cesena, Italy 2 Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy 3 Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive, 47023 Cesena, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Elisa Magosso, elisa.magosso@unibo.it Received 18 June 2009; Accepted 28 July 2009 Academic Editor: Fabrizio De Vico Fallani Copyright © 2010 Elisa Magosso et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Many studies have revealed that attention operates across different sensory modalities, to facilitate the selection of relevant information in the multimodal situations of every-day life. Cross-modal links have been observed either when attention is directed voluntarily (endogenous) or involuntarily (exogenous). The neural basis of cross-modal attention presents a significant challenge to cognitive neuroscience. Here, we used a neural network model to elucidate the neural correlates of visual-tactile interactions in exogenous and endogenous attention. The model includes two unimodal (visual and tactile) areas connected with a bimodal area in each hemisphere and a competition between the two hemispheres. The model is able to explain cross-modal facilitation