The Merging of the Senses

By Barry E. Stein, M. Meredith. 1993

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Continual Lifelong Learning with Neural Networks: A Review (2018, background): “l Learning The ability to integrate multisensory information is a crucial feature of the brain that yields a coherent, robust, and efﬁcient interaction with the environment (Ernst and Bülthoff, 2004; Stein and Meredith, 1993). Multisensory processing functions are the result of the interplay of the ”
Emergence of multimodal action representations from neural network self-organization (2017, background): “A vast corpus of studies has shown the ability of the brain to integrate multimodal information for providing a coherent perceptual experience (Ernst & Bulthoff, 2004; Stein & Meredith, 1993; Stein et al., 2009).”
Multisensory Interplay Reveals Crossmodal Influences on ‘Sensory-Specific’ Brain Regions, Neural Responses, and Judgments (2008, unknown): “…the relative location of stimuli in the different senses (Murray et al., 2005), unlike the spatial multisensory phenomena observed at the cellular (Stein and Meredith, 1993), fMRI (e.g., Macaluso et al., 2000; Macaluso and Driver, 2005), and behavioral levels (Frassinetti et al., 2002; Spence and…”
Selective integration of auditory-visual looming cues by humans. (2009, unknown): “Moreover, these situations, like many perceptual events, can likely be facilitated by the integration of multisensory cues to enhance perception and render behavior quicker and/or more accurate (Stein & Meredith, 1993; Welch & Warren, 1980).”
Multisensory Conflict Resolution: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (2017, background): “…research has identified a set of principles that describe how moderately effective, spatially and temporally coregistered stimuli from distinct sensory modalities are combined in key regions of the brain to elicit a neural response that is more than the sum of its parts (Stein and Meredith, 1993).”
Perception of intersensory synchrony: A tutorial review (2010, unknown): “…as information from different modalities share more (amodal) properties, the more likely it is that the brain treats them as originating from a common object or source (see, e.g., Bedford, 1989; Bertelson, 1999; Radeau, 1994; Spence, 2007; Stein & Meredith, 1993; Welch, 1999; Welch & Warren, 1980).”
Fundamental components of attention. (2007, background): “In lower mammals, and even more so in nonmammalian vertebrates, the superior colliculus plays a major role in form vision (Stein & Meredith 1993).”
Development and Plasticity of Intra- and Intersensory Information Processing (2008, background): “The beststudied model to date has been a subcortical structure, the superior colliculus (SC) (for reviews see Sparks, 1986; Stein and Meredith, 1991; Stein and Meredith, 1993; Sparks and Groh, 1995; King, 2004).”
Audio-visual speech perception is special. (2005, background): “of visual influence on auditory perception (Calvert , 2001; Stein & Meredith, 1993;”
Explicit encoding of multimodal percepts by single neurons in the human brain. (2009, unknown): “In particular, singlecell recordings have revealed multisensory neurons in the superior colliculus of cats [ 15 , 16] and in the posterior parietal cortex [17–19], the superior temporal sulcus [20–22], and the prefrontal cortex [23, 24] of monkeys.”
Multisensory integration: current issues from the perspective of the single neuron (2008, unknown): “It might be surprising to find that this is not a new evolutionary strategy: our earliest single-celled progenitor is thought to have been endowed with multiple 'senses' (that is, receptors for different environmental stimuli) and the ability to use them synergisticall”