title: Neuroscience: what you see and hear is what you get.
abstract: The brain receives signals from a variety of sources; for example, visual and auditory signals can both indicate the direction of a stimulus, but with differing precision. A recent study has shed light on the way that the brain combines these signals to achieve the best estimate possible.
authors.affiliation: Vision Science Program, School of Optometry, Department of Psychology, and Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. marty@john.berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Martin S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Banks
mesh_terms: D003463:Cues; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology*; D013017:Sound Localization / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*