Is neocortex essentially multisensory?

By Asif A. Ghazanfar, Charles E. Schroeder. 2006

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

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Multisensory Processes: A Balancing Act across the Lifespan (2016, background): “This traditional view has recently been complemented by evidence of a surprising degree of connectivity between areas traditionally deemed ‘unisensory’ (Figure 1) [83–87] (reviewed in [8,9]).”
Merging of the Senses (2008, neutral): “It has been proposed that the entire neocortex is multisensory (Ghazanfar and Schroeder, 2006) and, although there has been some controversy about this proposal, it would be useful to have an atlas of the multisensory specificity of all subcortical and cortical areas.”
Multisensory integration: current issues from the perspective of the single neuron (2008, neutral): “Most studies of multisensory processing in the human cortex come from neuroimaging and evoked-potential studies”
Multisensory Interplay Reveals Crossmodal Influences on ‘Sensory-Specific’ Brain Regions, Neural Responses, and Judgments (2008, neutral): “Nevertheless, as noted toward the end of our previous section, recent invasive recordings confirm sensory responses to more than one modality within several regions closely adjacent to sensory-specific cortex, particularly in and around auditory cortex (Ghazanfar et al., 2005; Ghazanfar and Schroede”
Body in mind: How gestures empower foreign language learning (2011, background): “Instead, information is processed in highly interconnected functional networks (Ghazanfar & Schroeder, 2006) in which interactions between modalities occur throughout processing (Cappe, Rouiller, & Barone, 2009).”
The Natural Statistics of Audiovisual Speech (2009, background): “The revelation that most, if not all, of the neocortex speaks to this claim generally [63], and the interactions between visual and auditory cortical regions which mediate face/voice integration speaks to vocal communication specifically [80,81].”
How Visual Is the Visual Cortex? Comparing Connectional and Functional Fingerprints between Congenitally Blind and Sighted Individuals (2015, background): “…results serve as a basis for the formulation of new hypotheses regarding the functionality and plasticity of specific subregions of the visual cortex. in processing input from other modalities is less clear (Morrell, 1972; Gibson and Maunsell, 1997; for a review, see Ghazanfar and Schroeder, 2006).”
Eccentricity dependent auditory enhancement of visual stimulus detection but not discrimination (2013, background): “…kind of multisensory interaction likely involves early visual cortices or specific visual pathways (Foxe et al., 2000; Foxe and Schroeder, 2005; Ghazanfar and Schroeder, 2006), as suggested not only by psychophysical studies (Jaekl and Harris, 2009; Jaekl and Soto-Faraco, 2010) but also by…”
The language void: the need for multimodality in primate communication research (2011, background): “At a neuronal level,we know that various brain regions, including the auditory cortex and the superior temporal sulcus, contain neurons that respond to the integration of visual and auditory signals, such as dynamic vocalizing monkey faces (Ghazanfar & Schroeder 2006).”
Spatial attention can modulate audiovisual integration at multiple cortical and subcortical sites (2009, background): “Furthermore, these regions may communicate via direct feedforward connections and via polysynaptic feedback loops (Falchier et al., 2002; Schroeder & Foxe, 2002; McDonald et al., 2003; Rockland & Ojima, 2003; Ghazanfar & Schroeder, 2006; Noesselt et al., 2007).”
Computational visual attention systems and their cognitive foundations: A survey (2010, background): “[Ghazanfar and Schroeder 2006], and “how do visual attention and object recognition interact?””
Spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical sensorimotor integration in behaving mice. (2007, background): “…in primary cortical areas of other sensory modalities (Fu et al., 2003; Wallace et al., 2004; Ghazanfar et al., 2005; Kayser et al., 2005; Martuzzi et al., 2006; Lakatos et al., 2007; reviewed in Schroeder and Foxe, 2005; Ghazanfar and Schroeder, 2006; Bulkin and Groh, 2006; Macaluso, 2006).”
Distinct Computational Principles Govern Multisensory Integration in Primary Sensory and Association Cortices. (2016, neutral): “Our results demonstrate that multisensory interactions are pervasive in human neocortex but subserve distinct computational tasks [5, 39].”
Multisensory Conflict Resolution: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (2017, background): “In fact, accumulating evidence suggests that purely unimodal regions of sensory cortex may be more the exception than the rule (Ghazanfar and Schroeder, 2006).”
Intersensory binding across space and time: A tutorial review (2013, neutral): “This model fits nicely with related biological mechanisms (Ben-Yishai, Bar-Or & Sompolinsky, 1995; Ghazanfar & Schroeder, 2006; Georgopoulos, Taira & Lukashin, 1993; Martuzzi, Murray, Michel, Thiran, Maeder, Clarke & Meuli, 2007; Rolls & Deco, 2002; Schroeder & Foxe, 2005).”