Chapter 3
Neural development of multisensory integration
Barry E. Stein, and Benjamin A. Rowland
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston–Salem, NC, United States
Abstract
The brain has many remarkable characteristics, one of which involves its ability to combine the information it derives from different senses into a multisensory product. This process of multisensory integration is ubiquitous and profoundly affects normal perception and behavior. The unisensory-multisensory transformation has been examined at the single neuron level in the superior colliculus (SC) of an animal model. Using this model, and the senses represented (vision, audition, somatosensation), it has been determined ...
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