1 BOLD activation patterns and graph metrics associated with conscious tactile perception Short title: Brain network for tactile awareness Martin Grund 1 , Norman Forschack 1,2 , Till Nierhaus 1,3 , and Arno Villringer 1,4 1 Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 2 Experimental Psychology and Methods, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Leipzig, 04109 Leipzig, Germany 3 Neurocomputation and Neuroimaging Unit, Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany 4 MindBrainBody Institute, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany Corresponding author: Martin Grund, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstr. 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany (mgrund@cbs.mpg.de) Number of pages: 36 Number of figures: 7; tables: 2 Number of words for Abstract: 175; Introduction: 791; Discussion: 1752 Conflict of interest: The authors declare no competing financial interest. Acknowledgements: The research was funded by the Max Planck Society. We thank Ramona Menger, Anke Kummer, Mandy Jochemko, and Nicole Pampus for their data acquisition support; Bettina Johst, Hendrik Grunert, and Jöran Lepsien for their technical advice; Heike Schmidt-Duderstedt and Kerstin Flake for preparing the figures for publication; and Joshua Grant for proofreading and commenting. . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this this version posted December 20, 2019. . https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.19.882365 doi: bioRxiv preprint