Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kaiser, Jochen (Editor), Naumer, Marcus Johannes (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurobiology.; Cognitive psychology.; Biomedicine.; Cognitive Psychology.

Traditionally a large proportion of perceptual research has assumed a specialization of cortical regions for the processing of stimuli in a single sensory modality. However, perception in everyday life usually consists of inputs from multiple sensory channels. Recently the question of how the brain...