Multisensory Interplay Reveals Crossmodal Influences on ‘Sensory-Specific’ Brain Regions, Neural Responses, and Judgments

By Jon Driver, T. Noesselt. Neuron, 2008

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Although much traditional sensory research has studied each sensory modality in isolation, there has been a recent explosion of interest in causal interplay between different senses. Various techniques have now identified numerous multisensory convergence zones in the brain. Some convergence may arise surprisingly close to low-level sensory-specific cortex, and some direct connections may exist even between primary sensory cortices. A variety of multisensory phenomena have now been reported in which sensory-specific brain responses and perceptual judgments concerning one sense can be affected by relations with other senses. We survey recent progress in this multisensory field, foregrounding human studies against the background of invasive animal work and highlighting possible underlying mechanisms. These include rapid feedforward integration, possible thalamic influences, and/or feedback from multisensory regions to sensory-specific brain areas. Multisensory interplay is more prevalent than classic modular approaches assumed, and new methods are now available to determine the underlying circuits.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sensory Systems

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The Construct of the Multisensory Temporal Binding Window and its Dysregulation in Developmental Disabilities (2014, background): “Indeed, these observations have spurred a debate as to whether or not the entire cerebral cortex (and by extension the entire brain) can be considered “multisensory” (Driver & Noesselt, 2008; Schroeder & Foxe, 2005).”
Oscillatory synchronization in large-scale cortical networks predicts perception. (2011, neutral): “…between processing streams traditionally considered as unimodal as well as between early sensory and higher-order multimodal processing stages (Driver and Noesselt, 2008; Driver and Spence, 2000; Ghazanfar and Schroeder, 2006; Kayser et al., 2008; Lakatos et al., 2007; Lewis and Noppeney,…”
Sound-Induced Enhancement of Low-Intensity Vision: Multisensory Influences on Human Sensory-Specific Cortices and Thalamic Bodies Relate to Perceptual Enhancement of Visual Detection Sensitivity (2010, background): “…Copyright © 2010 the authors 0270-6474/10/3013609-15$15.00/0 Kayser et al., 2007; Noesselt et al., 2007)] [see Ghazanfar and Schroeder (2006) and Driver and Noesselt (2008) for reviews on multisensory integration; and Falchier et al. (2002), Rockland and Ojima (2003), Cappe and Barone (2005),…”
Spatial attention can modulate audiovisual integration at multiple cortical and subcortical sites (2009, background): “…et al., 2000, 2001; Miller & D’Esposito, 2005], subcortical areas [thalamus, Komura et al., 2005; superior colliculus (SC), Meredith & Stein, 1983] and brain regions traditionally considered as ‘unisensory’ (for reviews see Schroeder & Foxe, 2005; Macaluso & Driver, 2005; Driver & Noesselt, 2008).”
Neurophysiological and Computational Principles of Cortical Rhythms in Cognition (2010, background): “A general computation of this kind is to combine information from different sensory modalities, such as binding of vocalized sounds with vocalizing faces in speech perception (257).”
Crossmodal recruitment of primary visual cortex following brief exposure to bimodal audiovisual stimuli. (2010, neutral): “…presence of a concurrent visual stimulus; similar data have been reported in human neuroimaging studies, where modulation of one sensory cortex occurs due to multisensory costimulation (for review see Driver & Noesselt, 2008; Ghazanfar & Schroeder, 2006; Senkowski, Schneider, Foxe, & Engel, 2008).”
Precision functional mapping of individual human brains (2017, neutral): “…individual network topologies, ‘‘primary’’ networks (i.e., visual, auditory, motor) tend to be connected to the CON (Dosenbach et al., 2006, 2007, 2008), likely via individualspecific network nodes in lateral parietal and posterior temporal cortex (Driver and Noesselt, 2008; Sepulcre et al., 2012).”
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Distinct Functional Contributions of Primary Sensory and Association Areas to Audiovisual Integration in Object Categorization (2010, background): “…in low-level auditory regions can be mediated by several types of functional neural architectures including feedforward thalamocortical, direct connections between sensory areas and feedback from higher-order association areas such as IPS or STS (Schroeder et al., 2003; Driver and Noesselt, 2008).”