Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: 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.
Author: Miller, Ryan Lloyd
Institutions: Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, Wake Forest University
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2526522569