Bringing together neural, perceptual, and behavioral studies,
The Merging of the Senses provides the first detailed review of how
the brain assembles information from different sensory systems in
order to produce a coherent view of the external world. Stein and
Meredith marshall evidence from a broad array of species to show
that interactions among senses are the most ancient scheme of
sensory organization, an integrative system reflecting a general
plan that supersedes structure and species. Most importantly, they
explore what is known about the neural processes by which
interactions among the senses take place at the level of the single
cell.The authors draw on their own experiments to illustrate how
sensory inputs converge (from visual, auditory, and somatosensory
modalities, for instance) on individual neurons in different areas
of the brain, how these neurons integrate their inputs, the
principles by which this integration occurs, and what this may mean
for perception and behavior. Neurons in the superior colliculus and
cortex are emphasized as models of multiple sensory
integrators.Barry E. Stein is Professor of Physiology and M. Alex
Meredith is Associate Professor of Anatomy, both at the Medical
College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University.
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