Multisensory integration: a late bloomer.
Under many circumstances, human adults integrate information from different sensory modalities, such as vision and hearing, in a statistically optimal fashion. New results suggest that optimal multisensory integration only develops in middle childhood.
Ernst
Marc O
MO
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstr. 41, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Marc.Ernst@Tuebingen.MPG.de <Marc.Ernst@Tuebingen.MPG.de>
D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology*; D014110:Touch / Q000502:physiology; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology