Recent studies using modern functional imaging methods have provided insights into the
brain areas involved in combining information across the senses, and the manner in which …

Understanding the conditions under which the brain integrates the different sensory streams
and the mechanisms supporting this phenomenon is now a question at the forefront of …

Combining information across different sensory modalities can greatly facilitate our ability to
detect, discriminate, or recognize sensory stimuli [1, 2]. Although this process of sensory …

Objects and events can often be detected by more than one sensory system. Interactions
between sensory systems can offer numerous benefits for the accuracy and completeness of …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Highlights•Multisensory integration is modulated by bottom-up and top-down factors.•The
core bottom-up features for multisensory integration are strength, location and timing of the …

Our understanding of sensory systems has grown impressively in recent years as a result of
intense efforts to characterize the mechanisms underlying perception. A large body of …

In order to interact with the multisensory world that surrounds us, we must integrate various
sources of sensory information (vision, hearing, touch…). A fundamental question is thus …

The development of neuroimaging methods has had a significant impact on the study of the
human brain. Functional MRI, with its high spatial resolution, provides investigators with a …

Historically, perception has been viewed as a modular function, with the different sensory
modalities operating independently of each other. Recent behavioral and brain imaging …