Concurrent Brain Responses to Separate Auditory and Visual Targets 1 [running Head: Concurrent Brain Responses to Crossmodal Targets] 2

Concurrent brain responses to separate auditory and visual targets 1 [Running head: Concurrent brain responses to crossmodal targets] 2 Paola Finoia, Daniel J Mitchell, Olaf Hauk, Christian Beste, Vittorio Pizzella, John Duncan 4 3 4 1. MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK 5 6 2. Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 7 Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus an der Technischen Universität Dresden, Fetscherstraße 74, 8 01307 Dresden, Germany 9 10 3. Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies I.T.A.B., University of Chieti and Pescara “G. 11 D’Annunzio”, Via dei Vestini n31, Chieti 66013, Italy 12 13 4. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 14 3UD, UK 15 16 Corresponding author: Paola Finoia, [email protected]; 17 Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Box167, Level 18 4, A Block, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK 19 20 Contact information during production: [email protected] 21 Tel: +44 1223 355294. Fax: +44 1223 359062 22 23 Author contributions: PF, DJM & JD designed research; PF, DJM & CB performed research; OH & 24 VP advised on analysis; PF & DJM analysed data; PF, DJM & JD wrote paper. 25 26