Item Details

title

UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION

author

Miller, Ryan Lloyd

abstract

Multisensory integration, the process by which the brain integrates inputs from different senses, has enormous survival value, and the search for its guiding principles has yielded substantial insight into this remarkable process. At the single neuron level, responses are more robust to spatiotemporally concordant modality-specific sensory cues (likely derived from the same event) than to either cue alone – an effect that is strongest when the cues are weakest. This multisensory enhancement effect increases event detectability and the likelihood of adaptive responses. Spatially discordant cues are either not integrated, or are integrated to yield depression.

subject

Anterior ectosylvian sulcus

Cross-modal

Multisensory integration

neural network

stimulus onset asynchrony

Superior Colliculus

contributor

Stein, Barry E (committee chair)

Stein, Barry E (committee member)

Rowland, Benjamin A (committee member)

Peiffer, Ann M (committee member)

Perrault, Thomas J (committee member)

Salinas, Emilio (committee member)

Stanford, Terrence R (committee member)

date

2016-05-21T08:35:51Z (accessioned)

2016-05-21T08:35:51Z (available)

2016 (issued)

degree

Neurobiology & Anatomy (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/59318 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Dissertation