Multisensory integration: vision boosts information through suppression in auditory cortex.
Signals from non-primary modalities can influence neural activity in 'unimodal' sensory areas of the neocortex, but whether this 'extra-modal' influence has any relevant consequences for neural coding has been unclear. Recent findings show that vision enhances the information content of neural signals in auditory cortex, but in a counter-intuitive fashion.
Ghazanfar
Asif A
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Neuroscience Institute, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. asifg@princeton.edu
Lemus
Luis
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D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*