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Multimodal sensory processing in Caenorhabditis elegans

Year: 2018

Type: review

Abstract: Multisensory integration is a mechanism that allows organisms to simultaneously sense and understand external stimuli from different modalities. These distinct signals are transduced into neuronal signals that converge into decision-making neuronal entities. Such decision-making centres receive information through neuromodulators regarding the organism's physiological state and accordingly trigger behavioural responses. Despite the importance of multisensory integration for efficient functioning of the nervous system, and also the implication of dysfunctional multisensory integration in the aetiology of neuropsychiatric disease, little is known about the relative molecular mechanisms. Caenorhabditis elegans is an appropriate model system to study such mechanisms and elucidate the molecular ways through which organisms understand external environments in an accurate and coherent fashion.

Source: Open Biology

DOI: 10.1098/rsob.180049

Authors: Athanasios Metaxakis, Dionysia Petratou, Nektarios Tavernarakis

Institutions: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, University of Crete

Language: English

Topic: Multisensory perception and integration

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,839

Funder: H2020 European Research Council