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We perceive and understand our environment using many sensory
systems-vision, touch, hearing, taste, smell, and proprioception.
These multiple sensory modalities not only give us complementary
sources of information about the environment but also an
understanding that is richer and more complex than one modality
alone could achieve. As adults, we integrate the multiple signals
from these sense organs into unified functional representations.
However, the ease with which we accomplish this feat belies its
computational complexity. Not only do the senses convey information
about the environment in different neural codes, but the
relationship between the senses frequently changes when, for
example, the body changes posture (e.g. when the eyes move in their
sockets), or indeed shape, when the body grows across development.
These computational problems prompt an important question which
represents the key focus of this book: How do we develop the
ability to integrate the senses? While there is a considerable
literature on the development of single senses, such as vision or
hearing, few books have considered the development of all our
senses, and more importantly, how they develop the ability to work
with each other.
This book is unique in exploring this extraordinary feat of human
nature - how we develop the ability to integrate our senses. It
will be an important book for all those in the fields of cognitive
and developmental neuroscience.
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