The development of audiovisual multisensory integration across childhood and early adolescence: a high-density electrical mapping study.

ABSTRACT: The integration of multisensory information is essential to forming meaningful representations of the environment. Adults benefit from related multisensory stimuli but the extent to which the ability to optimally integrate multisensory inputs for functional purposes is present in children has not been extensively examined. Using a cross-sectional approach, high-density electrical mapping of event-related potentials (ERPs) was combined with behavioral measures to characterize neurodevelopmental changes in basic audiovisual (AV) integration from middle childhood through early adulthood. The data indicated a gradual fine-tuning of multisensory facilitation of performance on an AV simple reaction time task (as indexed by race model violation), which reaches mature levels by about 14 years of a

SUBMITTER: Brandwein AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3077428 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature