Multisensory integration operates on correlated input from unimodal transient channels.

ABSTRACT: Audiovisual information reaches the brain via both sustained and transient input channels, representing signals' intensity over time or changes thereof, respectively. To date, it is unclear to what extent transient and sustained input channels contribute to the combined percept obtained through multisensory integration. Based on the results of two novel psychophysical experiments, here we demonstrate the importance of the transient (instead of the sustained) channel for the integration of audiovisual signals. To account for the present results, we developed a biologically inspired, general-purpose model for multisensory integration, the multisensory correlation detectors, which combines correlated input from unimodal transient channels. Besides accounting for the results of our psychophysi

SUBMITTER: Parise CV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11753778 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature