UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION

Multisensory integration, the process by which the brain integrates inputs from different senses, has enormous survival value, and the search for its guiding principles has yielded substantial insight into this remarkable process. At the single neuron level, responses are more robust to spatiotemporally concordant modality-specific sensory cues (likely derived from the same event) than to either cue alone – an effect that is strongest when the cues are weakest. This multisensory enhancement effect increases event detectability and the likelihood of adaptive responses. Spatially discordant cues are either not integrated, or are integrated to yield depression.

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Miller, Ryan Lloyd

• Anterior ectosylvian sulcus

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/59318

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/59318